AP – Indonesian scientists are reconstructing the largest, most complete skeleton of a prehistoric giant elephant ever found in the tropics, a finding that may offer new clues into the largely mysterious origins of its modern Asian cousin.

LiveScience.com – Scientists have discovered fossilized remains of the oldest known elephant relative, dating back 60 million years.

LiveScience.com – Some dinosaurs were the largest creatures ever to walk on
land, including the classic long-necked, whip-tailed Diplodicus, but a new study suggests it and its many extinct
brethren weighed as little as half
as much as previously thought.

The same paleontologist who made the Montana discovery of the first known dinosaur burrow has now found the trace fossil of a burrow in Australia almost identical to the one he identified in the US. His growing evidence of dinosaur burrows provides clues to climate change and how dinosaurs may have survived extreme environments — throwing a wrench in some extinction theories.

Scientists have identified preserved organic molecules in the skin of a dinosaur that died around 66-million years ago.

Researchers have compared an Allosauroidea tooth found in deposits in Riodeva, Teruel, with other similar samples. The palaeontologists have concluded that this is the largest tooth of a carnivorous dinosaur to have been found to date in Spain.

Scientists have discovered three new species of Australian dinosaur discovered in a prehistoric billabong in Western Queensland: two giant, herbivorous sauropods and one carnivorous theropod.

Microscopic analysis of scratches on dinosaur teeth has helped scientists unravel an ancient riddle of what a major group of dinosaurs ate — and exactly how they did it! Now for the first time, a study led by the University of Leicester, has found evidence that the duck-billed dinosaurs — the Hadrosaurs — in fact had a unique way of eating, unlike any living creature today.

In 2004, she accepted the Morris Skinner Award from the United States-based Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology for outstanding and sustained contributions to scientific knowledge.
Ed: This issue of Dinosaurnews is dedicated to Joan as she was the inspiration for this web site several years ago and a personal friend.

Wogelius and his colleagues conducted infrared imaging, amino acid analysis and high-temperature breakdown studies that show the organic materials taken from the hadrosaur are “completely different from the organics present as background in the surrounding geological sediment.”