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  • Tyrannosaurus rex noses out dinosaur competition (Reuters)

    Dino News 29.10.2008 No Comments

    A full scale model of a 'Tyrannosaurus rex' is put on display at a new exhibit 'The feast of dinosaurs' at Palais de la Decouverte museum in Paris October 18, 2005. (Charles Platiau/Reuters)Reuters - When it came to the sense of smell among meat-eating dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex nosed out the competition.


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  • How Dinosaur Poop Got Its Name

    Dino News 26.10.2008 No Comments

    Buckland found many coprolites and liked them so much, he even had a table made from a slab of inlaid dinosaur dung - the Lyme Regis Philpot Museum in England, which has the table, calls it “Buckland’s Dinosaur Poo Table”.

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  • Yunnan donates dinosaur fossil to Hong Kong

    Dino News 26.10.2008 No Comments

    A 7.8 meter-long dinosaur fossil unearthed in June 2007 in Lufeng County was packed and delivered to Hong Kong for a permanent exhibition which will kick off in late October

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  • Bizarre Dinosaur Lured Mates With Bony Adornments

    Dino News 26.10.2008 No Comments

    The scary spikes on a newly discovered horned dinosaur species may look bizarre today, but they were sexy 72 million years ago, new research suggests

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  • Hawaiian Cave Reveals Ancient Secrets (LiveScience.com)

    Dino News 26.10.2008 No Comments

    LiveScience.com - From the moment we saw it, we knew the place held many great
    secrets. We had been looking for new fossil sites on the south side of
    the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 1992 with our colleagues, Helen F.
    James and Storrs L. Olson of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,
    D.C., along with their children, Travis and Sydney, and our own, Mara
    and Alec.

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  • Tiny dinosaur on verge of swearing off meat (Reuters)

    Dino News 26.10.2008 No Comments

    Handout illustration shows a heterodontosaurus adult and juvenile. A rare juvenile skull of a 190 million-year-old dinosaur may help explain when an important group of plant eaters branched off from carnivorous cousins, U.S. and British researchers said on Thursday. (Natural History Museum/Nobumichi Tamura/handout/Reuters)Reuters - A rare juvenile skull of a 190 million-year-old dinosaur may help explain when an important group of plant eaters branched off from carnivorous cousins, U.S. and British researchers said on Thursday.


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  • Weird dino rewrites the book on birds (AFP)

    Dino News 26.10.2008 No Comments

    A paleontologist seen in March 2008, prepares the fossils of a 66 million year-old Tyrannosaurus rex in Los Angeles. A tiny, egg-robbing dinosaur that lived more than 150 million years ago could help explain a key phase in the evolution of birds, scientists reported on Wednesday. The beast was a distant relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex but was no bigger than a kitten.(AFP/File/Gabriel Bouys)AFP - A tiny, egg-robbing dinosaur that lived more than 150 million years ago could help explain a key phase in the evolution of birds, scientists reported on Wednesday.


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  • China finds fossils of small feathered dinosaur (Reuters)

    Dino News 26.10.2008 No Comments

    Reuters - Archaeologists in China have discovered fossils of a pigeon-sized feathered dinosaur which they believe to be an ancestor of birds.

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  • Dinosaur Graveyard Yields Fossil Bounty (LiveScience.com)

    Dino News 26.10.2008 No Comments

    In this undated photo released by the University of Utah, geologist Winston Seiler poses next a trackway, or set of prints made by the same dinosaur, as it walked through a wet, sandy oasis some 190 million years ago in what is now the Coyote Buttes North area straddling the Utah-Arizona border. Seiler and Marjorie Chan, chair of geology and geophysics at the University of Utah, published a new study in the October issue of the science journal Palaios showing that numerous impressions at the site are dinosaur tracks, not erosion-caused potholes as was believed previously. (AP Photo/University of Utah, Nicole Miller)     	 	Credit: Nicole Miller.LiveScience.com - A “dinosaur graveyard” full of fossils has been discovered in a former river bed in Utah, presenting an opportunity for a decade’s worth of Jurassic research by paleontologists, it was announced this week.

    Scientists and technicians with the Utah Thornbury Dinosaur Expedition unearthed an abundance of sauropod (an herbivorous long-necked dinosaur) finds, as well as the bones of several carnivorous dinosaurs, said paleontologist Luis Chiappe, director of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County’s Dinosaur Institute. …


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  • Geologists discover `dinosaur dance floor’ (AP)

    Dino News 26.10.2008 No Comments

    Laura Porro, a post-doctoral student at the University of Chicago, poses with skull of a Heterodontosaurus in this undated handout photo. The rare juvenile skull of a 190 million-year-old dinosaur may help explain when an important group of plant eaters branched off from carnivorous cousins, U.S. and British researchers said on October 23, 2008. REUTERS/University of Chicago Medical Center/Handout (UNITED STATES).  NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. NO SALES. MAGAZINES OUT. NOT FOR SALE TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS.AP - Geologists say they have discovered prehistoric animal tracks so densely packed on a 3/4-acre site that they’re calling it a “dinosaur dance floor.”


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