************************************************************** K12NewsLetters - From Educational CyberPlayGround http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ ************************************************************** From: "Roger Smith" <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <dinos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 19:54:15 +1300 Subject: * Fossil-mad mum's missing link quest * Climate change helped do in dinosaurs * Theory glides on wings of dinosaur * DINOSAURNEWS 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: ** Fossil-mad mum's missing link quest Mrs Cornish, 44, of Hawes Lane, West Wickham, visited Beijing to bring back a selection of "dino-bird" fossils found in Lao Ning, north east China, for preservation ** Scientists say climate change helped do in dinosaurs Researchers in Alberta say recent data suggest dinosaurs were in decline long before a catastrophic asteroid wiped out the population ** SUE Arrives at Museum of Idaho SUE will be the museum's largest exhibit and will fill about a quarter of the museum's new glass-enclosed annex ***************************************************************** INTEGRATE FOLKLORE, MUSIC, & TRADITIONAL CULTURE Folk music - sung during the days before there was a music industry when the role of music was about your life - about the life and times that most of us don't experience anymore and when the music was sung because it helped people through it and sustained them. <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/folk.html> ***************************************************************** ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________ FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO DINOSAURNEWS - Send an email to: subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ** Dinosaur Walk Museum It's the newest thing to hit Pigeon Forge, and it's touted as the world's largest collection of life-sized dinosaurs ** Class extracts dino bones It might look like the students are merely hitting rocks with a hammer, but they're actually painstakingly retrieving a fossil from a plaster wrapping known as a jacket ** Dinosaur tracks found in southern N.M Kappus, 28, came across some indentations in the rock and realized he had stumbled across a large bed of dinosaur tracks ** Prehistoric tusks point to earliest fossil evidence of differences between sexes The large tusks of an animal that roamed Earth before the dinosaurs may provide the earliest evidence yet of male-female distinctions in land animals that existed millions of years ago ** Arkansas students discover giant fossil University of Arkansas students unearthed the world's largest fossil of the squidlike, straight-shelled cephalopod at a city intersection as cars and trucks zipped by them ** Theory glides on wings of dinosaur Scientists in China have discovered the first fossil of a four-winged dinosaur, which they say shows the first fliers glided down from trees rather than ascended from the ground on the beat of a wing. ** Discovery Channel to Shoot Dinosaur Film The segment, titled "Prehistoric North America," will include animated dinosaurs that graze near the town of Flora and swoop down from rocks overlooking Imnaha, the Snake River and the Seven Devils mountains of Idaho ** A virtual catalogue of the world On a simple table, under a bright light, the fossilized skull of a protoceratops is waiting for its close-up. 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/ ************************************************************** Linking and Announcements For K12NewsLetters are provided by http://www.EricWard.com and http://www.URLwire.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> **************************************************************