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This Week's Headlines: (For the FULL STORY visit the NEWS section of the
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** Dinosaur unearthed just 30 minutes from Alberta museum
A former employee of Alberta's world-renowned dinosaur museum didn't have to
venture far to discover the remains of a Triceratops; the dinosaur's remains
were found just 30 minutes east of the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller
** 7 Dinosaurs Discovered Since The Last Jurassic Park Movie That Need To
Be In Jurassic Park 4
Well, paleontology didn't go on hiatus just because the Jurassic Park series
did; in the decade-plus since the last Jurassic Park movie there have been
all sorts of frightening, amazing and downright wacky dinos discovered
** Mountains, seaway triggered North American dinosaur surge
The rise of the Rocky Mountains and the appearance of a major seaway that
divided North America may have boosted the evolution of new dinosaur
species, according to a new Ohio University-led study (see chart)
** The Double Dinosaur Brain Myth
Dinosaurs didn't have hindbrains, but the significant spaces in the hips of
stegosaurs and sauropods still puzzle paleontologists
** Eating Habits Of The Jurassic Age Diplodocus Discovered
A team of researchers from the University of Bristol, Natural History Museum
of London, the University of Missouri and Ohio University report they have
discovered the eating habits of the Jurassic age dinosaur, the Diplodocus
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** New dinosaur discovery excites scientists
Scientists believe they have found more ancient dinosaur bones during a dig
near Winton in outback Queensland
** Province commits full $10 million to dino museum
Since an incident of fossil vandalism at a Red Willow River site in early
July, PCDI paleontologist Phil Bell said there's been a renewed drive from
those involved in the project to see the dinosaur museum established
** Art, science meet at dinosaur site
A new project at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm will
help visitors overcome that difficulty as area artists join with
paleontologists to create a lifelike, life-size sculpture of the
dilophosaurus that left a string of footprints now protected inside the
museum
** Other Fossil news - Yale researcher finds missing link between snakes
and lizards
A Yale University researcher says he's identified the world's most primitive
snake - an ancestral link between lizards and snakes that slithers like a
snake but isn't able to unhinge its jaws
** Painter brings odd Alaska dinosaur to life
It may have been the ugliest dinosaur ever but Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum,
an arctic-dwelling relative of the three-horned Triceratops, was uniquely
Alaskan, a species whose existence was only announced by scientists last
fall
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** Artist Paul Heaston and his Deinonychus sculpture
I got back into dinosaurs when I got a job as a guide for Dinosaur-Quest, a
small private dinosaur exhibit in a mall in San Antonio, Texas
** Drumheller's dinosaurs continue to fascinate visitors
A technician at the Royal Tyrell Museum extracts a fosssilized dinosaur
skull from the surrounding rock matrix, a process than can take months, even
years
** Armor for Sauropods
Compared to other sauropods with armor and other bony ornamentation,
Augustinia was exceptional; rather than possessing a mosaic of large and
small scutes, as in sauropods like Saltasaurus, the roughly 110
million-year-old Augustinia had a double-row of spiky knobs along its back
** Dinosaur skin fossil found in Kumamoto
A piece of fossilized soil with imprints of a reptile's skin has been found
among geological layers in Kumamoto Prefecture dating back to the late
Cretaceous Period some 98 million years ago, the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur
Museum says
** Tiny human brains threaten giant dinosaur bones in Alberta
Bell and his colleagues had a gruesome setback on July 5 when they went to a
site near the creek to retrieve a complete hadrosaur skeleton they'd found
three weeks before; it was to be a centrepiece of the new Philip J. Currie
Dinosaur Museum
** Dinosaur Dilophosaurus Brought Back To Life in St. George
The 200 million-year-old dinosaur footprints at the St. George Dinosaur
Discovery Site museum will soon be reunited with an old friend: a dinosaur
that may have made them
** Museum uses technology to bring dinosaurs to life
Using the application, museum visitors with smart phones will be able to
experience the augmented reality content that is used with many of the
dinosaur exhibits
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** Damage to dinosaur tracks 'inevitable'
Australian dinosaur expert Steve Salisbury says damage to a nationally
heritage listed dinosaur trackway spanning the length of the Dampier
Peninsula will be "inevitable" should the gas project at James Price Point
go ahead
** Watch the trailer for "Dinosaurs Explained," a new video series produced
by the American Museum of Natural History.
In the series, Museum paleontologists answer the most frequently asked
questions about dinosaurs.
** Rio International Symposium on Pterosaurs
From now until the 15th of December we are receiving abstracts submitted for
the Rio International Symposium on Pterosaurs.
All this and more in DINOSAUREWS. Published since 1998
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