************************************************************** K12NewsLetters - From Educational CyberPlayGround http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ ************************************************************** From: "Roger Smith" <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <dinonews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 16:48:38 +1300 Subject: Dino Drinking Riddle * Learn From The Cretaceous Ecology * B.C. Museums Dig Up Dinosaurs * Earliest T-Rex fossil identified Welcome to this edition of DINOSAURNEWS. Last year we brought you 740 dinosaur stories of international interest - this year we'll bring you 750 more! For the full story visit the NEWS section of the FREE webzine at this address: http://www.dinosaurnews.org The headlines: Solving the riddle of what the dino saw and where it drank In the same way, dinosaurs that slurped from the swamp laid eggs that were distinct from those laid by dinosaurs that sipped from a sparkling spring Children's Museum Gets Ready for Dinosaurs A paleo expert and hairdresser to stars like Olivia Newton John and Clint Eastwood, Lanzendorf has been collecting since the age of 12 Learn From The Cretaceous Ecology Or Be Doomed To Repeat It Only 21 percent of species made it across the K-T boundary, and only 11 species originate in the Palaeocene indicating the recovery was not immediate B.C. museums dig up dinosaurs from around the globe For years researchers here have been chipping away at limestone and shale, looking for evidence of creatures that lived during the Mesozoic Era, the mid-life measure comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods: the age of the dinosaurs FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO DINOSAURNEWS subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sue: Still Hot After All Those Years The dinosaur was discovered by palaeontologist Sue Hendrickson in 1990 on a South Dakota Indian reservation Dinosaur or pond scum: Their fate's the same He was one of the first scientists to confirm that dinosaurs were not gradually becoming extinct at the time of their sudden demise but were in fact flourishing Fossil suggests four-winged dinosaur >From the fine-grained rock of China's Chaoyang Basin has sprung yet another strange prehistoric creature - a four-winged dinosaur that more closely resembled a flying squirrel than a ravaging beast Kidosaurs roam Burke on Dinosaur Day A slew of curators and graduate students will be on hand to explain the dino fossils, as well as dinosaur-era vertebrates, invertebrates, microfossils, plants and minerals Earliest T-Rex fossil identified It's a long tooth and it's long in the tooth as well, buried for 125 years in a drawer full of fossils. Nature took two bites at the tooth, but only one survived But the armoured fish, known as placoderms, split from this branch of the evolutionary tree before our line evolved teeth Feathers not unique to birds: Chinese scientists Feathers appeared on some species of dinosaurs that could run at fast speeds and had few evolutionary links with birds, such as Caudipteryx and the species unearthed in China, Sinosauropteryx prima DINOSAURNEWS webzine now read in 80 countries. The latest Dinosaur News, Dinosaur Books, Dinosaur Games, Dinolinks and a Dinomall. Read something ferocious this week: http://www.dinosaurnews.org SEND US YOUR NEWS: Does your Museum have a dinosaur focus? Put us on your media database. We welcome your news of events, discoveries and exhibitions. news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ************************************************************** K12Newsletters - From Educational CyberPlayGround http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ ************************************************************** If you have any questions, concerns, suggestions, or would like to sponsor the NetHappenings service - <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/Subguidelines.html> Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Change Email Preferences - <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/K12Newsletters.html> **************************************************************