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News From Thursday, July 21, 2011
10:26:22 PM Museum of the Rockies dinosaur exhibit opens in Japan
Montana State University - United States

Jack Horner, MOR Curator and Regents Professor of Paleontology, autographs toy dinosaurs for Japanese children at the grand opening of the Museum of the Rockies dinosaur exhibit at the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan in early July. ... [more]

7:39:37 PM Fossil is oldest pregnant lizard
United Press International

Paleontologists say the fossil is a very complete, 12-inch lizard with more than a dozen embryos in its body that was probably just days from giving birth when it died and was buried during the Cretaceous period, the BBC reported Thursday. ... [more]

7:39:37 PM Alberta dinosaur dig attracts celebrities
Edmonton Journal

By Jana G. Pruden, edmontonjournal.com July 21, 2011 12:03 PM GRANDE PRAIRIE - A diverse group of celebrities, artists, philanthropists, authors and paleontologists will be arriving in Grande Prairie for a three-day dig at one of the world's richest  [more]

7:39:37 PM Did Greenhouse Gasses Unleash the Dinosaurs?
Science Now

The mass extinction 201 million years ago at the end of the Triassic period (known as the end-Triassic extinction) wiped out half the known species on land and in the sea, paleontologists found, which triggered the rise of the dinosaurs. ... [more]

7:19:32 PM Children's dinosaur program coming to CARL
Fort Leavenworth Lamp - Fort Leavenworth,KS,USA

Joseph “PaleoJoe” Kchodl is a paleontology enthusiast and educator who has been presenting programs about dinosaurs and fossils since 1993. Kchodl was an Army ordnance officer from 1979 to 1987 and went on to become an educator and author of books su [more]

4:51:11 PM Wasps Populated Rotting Dinosaur Eggs
Discovery News

Rotting dinosaur eggs were good eats, as well as home, to numerous scavenging insects, according to a new study in the journal Paleontology. Jorge Genise of the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences and colleague Laura Sarzetti came to that conclusion [more]

2:28:50 PM Don't Mess With Pissarrachampsa
Wired News - USA

Just look at how paleontologists Felipe Montefeltro, Hans Larsson, and Max Langer described this extinct group of crocodiles by way of introducing a new species into the group earlier this month: Baurusuchidae is a group of extinct Crocodyliformes wi [more]

6:58:53 AM Richard van Frank, 87
NorthJersey.com

He did his graduate studies at Harvard University in vertebrate paleontology and worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and at the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, Mass. ... [more]

4:39:36 AM Cheap Thrills: Visiting T-Rex at the Museum of Paleontology
Patch.com

By Lyra King The giant Tyrannosaurus rex stands tall in the stairwell of the Museum of Paleontology. Baring its six-inch serrated teeth in a creepy grin, its long tail whipped back in a frozen pose, the giant Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, housed in the [more]

4:39:36 AM Failed, High-End Ameya Preserve on the Auction Block
New West - Missoula,MT,USA

The use of Horner's name in promotional materials for Ameya also triggered a breach of contract dispute between Dokken and the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, where Horner served as curator of paleontology. The museum claimed Dokken failed to deliv [more]



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