A couple of news articles...

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

Both from the Melbourne Herald-Sun (Wed Aug 6th, 2003):

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DINO DIG STRIKES THREE

Vladivostok - The skeletons of three large dinosaurs, of which one may
belong to an unknown species, have been found in Russia's far east.

The mystery dinosaur would have been at least 15m tall and the other two
herbivorous hadrosaurs about 10m.

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BONING UP ON ANCIENT TIMES
By JANE METLIKOVEC


CLAYTON is not the first place you would expect to find a 220
million-year-old rock with 20 dinosaurs inside.

But that's just what visitors to the Monash University Science Centre
will see.

The 1.2 tonne slab of clay and mudstone was donated to Monash from
America's Carnegie Museum last year.

Recently, fossil preparator Rosie Rush discovered the skeleton of a
Coelophysis dinosaur, which lived in the late Triassic 220 million years
ago, inside the rock.

The 1.5m by 2m rock is on display at the Monash Science Centre for the
next few years. Ms Rush works on it while school groups marvel at the
oldest dinosaur-bearing rock in the state.

"We are the only place in Victoria where you can see fossil preparation
on display," Ms Rush said.

I'11 use a brush and a small needle to work on the rock while people are
watching. The rock chips away really easily and people can clearly see
the bones inside."

The university aims to extract enough bones from the rock to make a cast
and a skeleton of the small meat-eating dinosaurs, who are believed to
have died in floods.

Ms Rush will leave some bones in the rock for future displays.

Anything new found in the rock will go back to Carnegie Museum, but
anything found which is already known to science becomes Monash
University's property.


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Dann Pigdon                   Australian Dinosaurs:
GIS / Archaeologist         http://www.geocities.com/dannsdinosaurs
Melbourne, Australia        http://www.alphalink.com.au/~dannj/
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