DINOSAURNEWS Mon, 16 May 2005
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From: "Roger Smith" <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 17:34:47 +1200
Welcome to this edition of DINOSAURNEWS - the international Dinosaur
Webzine with bite!
This Week's Headlines: (For the FULL STORY visit the NEWS section of the
webzine at this address: http://www.dinosaurnews.org )
** Hunting down T. rex in the Badlands
Real palaeontology is carrying 160 pounds of coprolite - that's fossilized
dino dung - down the steep slope of a butte on a stretcher
** Dino Dippy celebrates a century
The 26m long copy of a skeleton of the plant-eating diplodocus has been
living in the museum since it was donated by King Edward VII on 12 May 1905
** Piece by piece, Jane exhibit a team effort
For Burpee Museum's latest exhibit, "Jane: Diary of a Dinosaur," the
planning team is comprised of a combination of in-house experts and outside
contractors
** Canadian Man Tried in Shanghai for Smuggling
Pascal Barre was arrested along with his Chinese wife, Wei Muhong, after
Chinese customs officers in November seized eight fossils of small marine
dinosaurs that the couple had allegedly attempted to mail
** Scientist solves mystery of dino's demise
Like a good gumshoe, the palaeontologist meticulously pieced together the
clues, followed leads and put the best technology to work in trying to
figure out what killed Dak, a young duck-billed dinosaur that once roamed
Montana's northern reaches
** Horner disputes altering dinosaur discovery for movie opening
Palaeontologist Jack Horner, who served as a science consultant for the
"Jurassic Park" films, acknowledged that the announcement of a dinosaur find
in eastern Montana was delayed to help promote the third instalment of the
dinosaur-flick franchise four years ago
** New exhibit is dino-might
The requisite fossils are on display, but the exhibit focuses on video
presentations, animatronic models and a detailed, full-scale diorama of a
Mesozoic forest in China to illustrate some recent ground-breaking discoveries
** Hall of Horns & Teeth to roar to life in June
Ambient sounds, fleshed-out dinosaurs and the largest collection of American
fossils promise to lure dino fans to the Museum of the Rockies this summer
as the facility reveals the first phase of its three-year expansion
** More Fossil News: Handling fossils destroys them
A lot of these fossil beds are located in many parts of Anatolia and the
biggest enemy to them are people who damage or destroy them, albeit
unintentionally
** Principal Photography for Sky High Entertainment's Dinosaurs of Patagonia
3D completed
** A Vigorous Introduction to Dinosaurs - Dinosaurs by Dr Robert T. Bakker.
Illustrated by Luis V. Rey
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