Itchy dinosaurs, Fossil of unknown species found on Vancouver Island, Exhibit coming to Sternberg museum

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

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**  Itchy dinosaurs
Apparently tiny mite-like creatures plagued feathered dinosaurs just as they
do birds today

**  'Jurassic Park' exhibit coming to Sternberg museum in February
The traveling exhibit built around Giganotosaurus is the largest collection
of dinosaur skeletons currently traveling in the United States

**  Fossil of unknown species found on Vancouver Island
The 4.5-metre-long marine reptile would have snared anything that swam past
with its rows upon rows of razor-sharp teeth

**  Fossils may push back clock for mammals
Kulbeckia is a member of a little known group of mammals called
zalambdalestids whose origins remain murky

**  Animatronic Tyrannosaurus rex on display
Robotic technology allows you to witness a prehistoric spectacle as T. rex
guards a recent kill
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**  Feature site:  DILOPHOSAURUS!  A Narrated Exhibition
This tour is narrated by the discoverer of Dilophosaurus, Sam Welles,
formerly a professor at the University of California Museum of Paleontology
(UCMP)

**  Earth's close shave
An asteroid big enough to wipe out a major country has given the Earth a
close shave, passing less than twice the distance of the Moon from our
planet, astronomers reported

**  Feathers, Fakes and Fossil Dealers
How the commercial sale of fossils erodes science and education

**  Dino-ROAR
It's 75 million years ago, and you are somewhere in what is now the San Juan
Basin of New Mexico

**  Museum's dinosaur exhibit is real kid-pleaser
Dinosaurs never lived in what is now Corpus Christi, but there is a dinosaur
exhibit at the Museum of Science and History anyway

**  Dinosaurs facts & Fiction
Few subjects in the Earth sciences are as fascinating to the public as
dinosaurs

**  Morrison: Birthplace of the Jurassic Giants
The Morrison specimen of Apatosaurus ajax leads a parade of Jurassic giants
found in the Morrison Formation elsewhere in the West

**  Dig into science, fantasy of dinosaurs
Why are children fascinated with these creatures, which began roaming the
earth 230 million years ago and whose disappearance remains a
mystery?

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