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DINO HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE GLOBE
New dinosaur bones found in Russia's southeastern region
While removing bones of an olorotitan from Kundursky excavation site, we spotted a tooth of a carnivorous dinosaur stuck between the caudal vertebrae of the olorotitan
New York's Central Park could accommodate almost 100 dinosaurs
James Farlow of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and colleagues have worked out the food needs and resources of a dino population preserved in a deposit called the Morrison formation, which stretches across Colorado, Utah and Wyoming
Painting with dinosaurs
"Albertosaurus, Cretaceous Alaska" depicts a gigantic predatory reptile stalking a herd of horned herbivores through the prehistoric jungle presumed to have covered part of what is now the North Slope 70 million years ago or so
Digging for Aussie dinosaurs
Novice paleontologists will join experts on a dinosaur dig in outback Queensland in the hope of finding 100-million-year-old fossils
World of Dinosaurs from land, sea, sky on display
More than 60 skeletal mounts representing 40 species of dinosaurs that once inhabited Earth between 250 and 65 million years ago, during the Mesozoic Era, make up the massive "World of Dinosaurs; Land, Sea and Air" exhibit
Museum Separates Iconic Battling Dinosaurs in Rotunda
Dinosaur footprint fossil found in Shandong Province
The dinosaur footprint fossil group, which formed in the middle of the Cretaceous period, is located in the Beiling hillside, 20 kilometers away from the urban area of Zhucheng
Steven Spielberg heads Down Under to shoot for new dino show
Spielberg has chosen southeast Queensland in Australia as the location for his new show and is reported to cost a staggering 2.6 million pound-per-episode
 Not Dinos But - Researchers put new twist in ancient lizard tale
Overturning decades of conventional wisdom about the shape and swimming style of the mosasaur - a huge marine lizard known from fossil discoveries in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba - the researchers' new study has pinned a shark-like tail on the predatory reptile that ruled the vast oceans of Cretaceous Canada
Dinosaur bones found at Norwood Hill construction site
A staff paleontologist from the CDOT who has been present the project, said workers uncovered vertebrae and rib fragment fossils of a sauropod
Stolen fossilised dinosaur egg returned
A fossilised dinosaur egg stolen from Otago Museum was dropped off to Dunedin police later, but whoever returned it didn't stick around to discuss the ancient object
Cowboy Rides in for Dinosaur Bone Roundup
Chiappe - director of the Dinosaur Institute and curator of the department of Vertebrate Paleontology of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County - brought a team of about two dozen people, including grad students and other noted dinosaur discoverers Rodolfo Coria, Jim Clark and Cathy Forster
Hunting For Dinosaurs - The Discoveries
A week long excursion into the badlands of North Dakota near Marmarth may have started a little slow but by midweek the toil and effort was all paying off
Other Fossil News - What lies beneath
When he first exposed the fossil, he thought it was a jaw, but upon closer examination knowing jaws are straight and not curved, he knew it was a pachycephalosaurus skull
Try searching the dinosaur infromation databases
Dinosaurs Invade Copenhagen
This Patagonian giant was larger than the Tyrannosaurus, it measured fourteen-meters long and weighted in at eight tons
 Mosasaur Fossil, Considered the World’s Finest
NHM Dinosaur Institute paleontologist Dr. Luis Chiappe co-authors paper.
Fossil Now Destined for New Museum Exhibition, Dinosaur Mysteries, Opening Summer of 2011
One of the ocean’s most formidable marine predators, the marine mosasaur Platecarpus, lived in the Cretaceous Period some 85 million years ago and was thought to have swum like an eel. That theory is debunked in a new paper published today in the journal Public Library of Science. An international team of scientists have reconceived the animal’s morphology, or body plan, based on a spectacular specimen housed at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Considered the best preserved mosasaur (Platecarpus tympaniticus) in the world, the Natural History Museum’s specimen is 20 feet long and 85 million years old.
The paper was co-authored by a team of four scientists: Johan Lindgren (Lund University, Lund, Sweden), Michael W. Caldwell, Takuya Konishi (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), and Luis M. Chiappe, Director of the Natural History Museum’s Dinosaur Institute.
The mosasaur specimen was discovered in Kansas in 1969, and acquired by the NHM shortly thereafter. It contains four slabs, which make up a virtually complete, 20-foot specimen. Dr. Chiappe spurred a modern preparation of the specimen, and assembled the paper’s research team. “It is one of several exceptional fossils that will be featured in Dinosaur Mysteries,” said Chiappe, curator of the 15,000-square foot landmark exhibition that opens at the museum in 2011.
In the meantime, the fossil will be temporarily on display at the museum’s Dino Lab, a working lab located on the second floor of the museum,
where paleontologists prepare fossils in full view of the public
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