DINOSAURNEWS - Great Asian Dinosaurs, I'd Rather Dig Them Up, Running Gators, Jurassic Coastline, Giant Roach

["Roger Smith" <jollyroger@wave.co.nz>]

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**  Taking Wing
As the idea that birds descended from dinosaurs gained acceptance by all but
a few paleontologists, so too did the cursorial hypothesis

**  Sternberg Museum to display exhibit larger than Sue
"This exhibit has not been in the Midwest," Hammond said. "It's probably six
times larger than the Sue exhibit."

**  After Dinosaurs, 'Prehistoric Beasts'
Meet a menagerie including gastornis, a giant bird that eats horses the size
of house cats; basilosaurus, a whale with hind legs; and doedicurus,
spike-tailed kin to the sloth, anteater and armadillo

**  Giant Roach Fossil Found in Ohio Coal Mine
Geologists at Ohio State University have discovered a fossil of a giant
prehistoric cockroach that roamed North America about 300 million years ago
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**  Running Gators Shed Light on How Dinosaurs Breathed
Farmer and a colleague, David Carrier, an associate professor of biology at
the university, discovered that gators are able to breathe while they walk
because they use a rocking pubic bone, part of the pelvis, to expand and
contract their breathing cavity

**  'I'd rather dig them up myself than buy them'
The difference between him and every other little boy who ever loved slimy
pets and dinosaur books is simply that he never found anything else he felt
like spending time on

**  Science With a Social Conscience
Just beyond a remote, dusty village near the northwest coastline of
Madagascar, an only partially glimpsed wealth of dinosaur bones lies buried
in the sandstone

**  'Jurassic' coastline to become world heritage site
A fossil-rich stretch of coastline in the south of England is expected to
become a world heritage site.

**  Dinosaur man gets award
Museum palaeontologist Scott Hocknull, who helped unearth Australia's
biggest dinosaur, has been named Young Australian of the Year for Queensland

**  The Lost World Game
Have fun this holiday season with the BBC's game that utilises FLASH
technology
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**  New Genus of Dinosaur Discovered in China
Fossil remains of the six-meter-tall creature animal along with bones of
another dinosaur from the period were discovered in sugarcane fields near
Nanning

**  Great Asian Dinosaurs
Great Asian Dinosaurs! Unique Creatures from Russia's Vaults presents an
impressive group of remarkably preserved fossils, including an astonishing
33 complete skeletons

**  Our feature Site - The Rex Files
For the past century dinosaurs have dominated our imaginations - from the
schlock-horror nightmares of the 1950s to the Jurassic Parks of the 1990s

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