Register your dinosaur, Dinosaur Fans and Coal Mines in Harmony, Dino furniture the next big thing, This Bambi thought to be prehistoric link

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

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**  Dinosaur Fans, Coal Mines in Harmony
In this blue-collar mining town, the past meets the future in a 100
million-year-old layer of rock.

**  Museum manager walks the dinosaur
Her latest ideas revolve around programming. "Dinosaurs Alive!" - the
Imaginarium's first foray into traveling exhibits - could launch a series of
blockbuster exhibits aimed at recharging community interest

**  Dino-furniture: But sale of fossils raises legal questions
If a California entrepreneur's business plan is successful, guests at
fashionable dinner parties in the near future may be asked to hang their
coats on the triceratops skeleton in the study

**  Child dinosaur experts call for exotic vegetation
Europe's biggest dinosaur park is spending £100,000 on authentic prehistoric
vegetation to satisfy an army of child dinosaur experts

**  Scientists look for clues to space rock's history under crater
Scientists have begun drilling a mile-deep hole into a massive underground
crater that was left by a mountain-size asteroid or comet that slammed into
earth 65 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs
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**  This Bambi thought to be prehistoric 'link'
Bambiraptor is the celebrated "missing link" between birds and dinosaurs, a
creature that lived 75 million years ago and was discovered in 1994

**  UVSC dinosaur expert to give lecture Feb. 13
A presentation on why Bybee believes T-Rex was a predator as well as a
scavenger

**  Extinction Is Forever? Or Is It?

A systematic study of 500 million years worth of fossils indicates that the
replenishment of lost biodiversity after extinction may also be independent
of the magnitude of the extinction event

**  Register your dinosaur
A deadline is looming for anyone who has ever succumbed to the temptation to
pick up a prehistoric stone tool, or a chunk of fossil wood and take it home

**  A dinosaur named Sue, and the way science really works
In 1990, a fossil-hunting team working in the South Dakota badlands made a
dramatic discovery: their truck had a flat tire

**  Georgian ponders some well-kept bones to tap the secrets of a fossil
named T.C
Because the duck-billed dinosaur, or hadrosaur, was "mummified" in almost
the exact position where it fell into the mire, T.C. has enormous scientific
value, Nicklas said

**  Our feature Site: Top 10 Misconceptions about Dinosaurs
>From the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

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