Welcome to this edition of DINOSAURNEWS - the international Dinosaur Webzine
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This Week's Headlines: (For the FULL STORIES visit:
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** Dinosaurs still alive when asteroid hit, profs prove
The discovery last year by several Yale researchers of a triceratops' horn
below the so-called K-T boundary provides new support for the theory that an
asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs around 65 million years ago
** What the Goofy "More Dinosaurs" Got Right
The anticipated show is already being argued over based on sneak-peek clips
and images-some say it's going to be the best dino-documentary of all time,
while others see it as another sensationalist program rife with
inaccuracies. (video below)
** Pay dirt for paleontologists in Alberta's oilfields
Nichollsia borealis, which was uncovered by a 100-tonne electric shovel in
the Base Mine at Syncrude in 1994, was named in honour of the late Dr.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Nicholls, the former curator of the Marine Reptiles
department at the Royal Tyrrell Museum and a pioneering researcher who
passed away in 2004
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** Portuguese palaeontologist discovers first dinosaur footprints in Angola
Portuguese palaeontologist Octávio Mateus has discovered the first dinosaur
footprints in Angola, during an international expedition to the country this
summer
** Dinosaurs in NE Asia not killed by asteroid smash
Scientists now claim that the end of the long-gone reptile's reign in some
regions of northeast Asia can be linked to several other factors, including
volcanic eruption, climate change and drops in sea level
** Scientists seek to turn chickens into mini-dinosaurs
By altering the DNA of chicken embryos in the early stage of their
development, the team were able to 'undo' evolutionary progress and give the
creatures snouts which are thought to have been lost in the cretaceous
period millions of years ago
** Dino footprints found in Gainesville
The longtime fossil hunters recognized that they were looking at something
significant when they ran across the prints in a 1,500 pound rock at a
construction site in the Gainesville area
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** "Dino" Don Lessem: Media's Own Dinosaur Expert
To risk cataloguing, he's written 50 books on the subject, served as an
advisor on the film "Jurassic Park," raised millions of dollars for
paleontological digs, reconstructed the largest animal and the two largest
carnivores that have ever lived, organized more museum exhibits than you
could see in a lifetime of third-grade field trips, befriended Michael
Crichton, had a dinosaur named after him, and will, this fall, open a dino
exhibit at the Granite Run Mall
** Vecchiarelli digs dinosaurs
During the week-long class, he learned laboratory methods and how to
excavate dinosaur-age vertebrates in the Quay County area, 25 miles from
Tucumcari
** A First Look at Dinosaur Revolution
Previously titled "Reign of the Dinosaurs", the prehistoric serial promises
to "feature never-before-seen intimate behaviors to illustrate the
extraordinary life of dinosaurs, dropping viewers directly into the
Prehistoric era."
** Dinosaur fossil tracks uncovered
Polish paleontologists have reported a surprising fossil first - a
Protoceratops dinosaur that apparently died in its own tracks about 80
million years ago in Mongolia
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** Other Fossil News - Plesiosaur dinosaur fossil solves breeding puzzle
The fossil bones of a giant, long-necked swimming reptile from the age of
the dinosaurs have resolved a long-held mystery about the animals and how
they reproduced
** Huge Group of Polar Dinosaur Tracks Discovered in Australia
The discovery of a group of more than 20 three-toed dinosaur tracks in
Australia is the largest and best-preserved collection of polar dinosaur
tracks found in the Southern Hemisphere
** Not Dinos But - Enormous Bird Lived Alongside Dinosaurs
An enormous prehistoric bird, which might have resembled a very big ostrich,
lived alongside dinosaurs around 83 million years ago, according to new
research
** Did Dinosaurs Hibernate? Melting History's Mysteries at South Pole
Montana State University graduate student Holly Woodward found that the
physiology of dinosaurs living in Australia over 160 million years ago was
practically the same as dinosaurs living everywhere else on Earth
** Funding shortfall delays Alberta dinosaur museum
The effort to construct the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum, named after an
eminent University of Alberta paleontologist, raised nearly half a million
dollars at a celebrity-studded fundraiser in July, but still doesn't have
enough money to break ground on its new building
** Land of the Scary Dragon
Inside an air hangar in the middle of the countryside in China's Shandong
province, 600 kilometers southeast of Beijing, paleontologist Xu Xing is
absently watching a tipsy, red-faced tourist
** Sea Rex: Journey to a Prehistoric World
A new Omnimax show, "Sea Rex: Journey to a Prehistoric World", will start
showing at the Hong Kong Space Museum on September 1. The show will screen
until February 29 next year.
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