New articles on dinosaurs with wierd statements to boot!

["Nick Gardner" <n_gardner637@hotmail.com>]

Anonymous (2002) China Becomes a Mecca for Dinosaur Research, People's 
Daily, September 23, 2002
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200209/23/eng20020923_103690.shtml

"Five dinosaur species unearthed in China [...] basically illustrate the 
complete evolutionary course of dinosaurs, according to Dong."

Anonymous (2002) China Writes Major Chapter on World's Dinosaur Research, 
People's Daily, September 16, 2002
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200209/16/eng20020916_103250.shtml

This article is pretty much the same as the above, just shorter and has an 
extra quote by Dong Zhiming.

Joling, Dan (2002)  Unlocking Alaska's dinosaur secrets, Juneau Empire, 
September 22, 2002
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/092202/sta_dinosaurs.shtml

Seems to be written as though the author thinks that dinosaurs were 
cold-blooded. Grr...  There's a cool image of a hadrosaur foot, any one know 
where that came from?

Perez, Jennifer (2002)  Malta's dino diggers holding all the cards, Great 
Falls Tribune, September 22, 2002
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/news/stories/20020922/localnews/135143.html

Montana stegosaurs? Also for you predentate (or ornithischian, if you wish) 
fans out there, "Elvis the Pelvis. Found north of Malta in 1994, Elvis was 
named for his perfectly preserved pelvis." I don't get it personally... :?

And here's an older article on "Shenzhouraptor sinensis".  You might wish to 
note some interesting errors in it... :S

Anonymous (2002) Fossil of Flying 'Dinosaur' Found in Northeast China, 
People's Daily, July 23, 2002

Says that "Shenzhouraptor" does not have a retroverted hallux.  The tail is 
said to be more than 20 caudals long. The sternum is described as 
"U-shaped".  The teeth are apparently absent.  The feathers are described as 
being longer than the length of both the ulna and the manus. The article 
ends in this peculiar quote, though, "So far, the popular theory is still 
that birds came from the archaeopteryx."

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