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4 hrs ago | Manhattan Mercury

Let the library help you get your fingers dirty this summer

Get ready to "Dig into Reading" all summer at the library for our summer reading theme.

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Related Topix: Science, Paleontology

11 hrs ago | Kypost.Com

2-mile wide Asteroid to pass by Earth

Scientists compare it to the one that killed off the dinosaurs. But, before you start scrambling for the next shuttle flight off this planet, rest assured: It will not strike Earth.

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Related Topix: Science, Paleontology

20 hrs ago | Martinsville Bulletin

Dinos draw crowds to VMNH

An increase in visitors at the Virginia Museum of Natural History is being attributed largely to the popularity of two dinosaur-themed exhibits.

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Related Topix: Science, Paleontology, Martinsville, VA

Sat May 18, 2013

Patch.com

Best of Craigslist: 'Phallic' Landscaping Stone; Clown Wanted for Hangout

The following items and postings were found on Craigslist for the Elmhurst, Wheaton and Glen Ellyn area.

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Related Topix: Wheaton, IL, Glen Ellyn, IL, Elmhurst, IL, Lombard, IL, Science, Paleontology

Texas Highways

Dallas Reinvented

Having grown up in Dallas, I rarely thought of the city as a getaway destination, even though I've lived my adult life just 40 miles to the west in Fort Worth.

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Related Topix: Dallas, TX, Perot Sys, Computers, IT Services, Science, Paleontology, Family, Kids

LiveScience

Smuggled Dinosaur's Return May Boost Mongolian Paleontology

When Mongolia's most famous dinosaur, a relative of T. rex , returns to the Asian country on May 18, it returns to a homeland rich in dinosaur fossils, but with scant resources to display and study them.

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Related Topix: Science, Paleontology, Mongolia, World News, Asia, Mongolia Travel, Travel, Asia Travel, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Arthritis in the age of dinosaurs

Paul Willis was leading a tour of fossil sites in western Queensland and poking around an old quarry when he stumbled upon a fossilised vertebra of an elasmosaur, the long-necked marine , which lived 100 million years ago.

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Related Topix: Science, Paleontology

Fri May 17, 2013

Monsters and Critics

Asteroid flyby alert: Massive dark asteroid to whiz by Earth on May 31

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge reports they are keeping an eye out for an asteroid reportedly 1.7 miles long, one big enough to cause the dinosaurs\' extinction if it ever connected with the planet.

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Related Topix: La Canada Flintridge, CA, Science, Paleontology, Science / Technology, Space, Astronomy

News Observer

Life-size dinosaurs invade natural sciences museum

Asheville artist John Payne dreamed of bringing dinosaurs to life, and he worked for years to create metal dinosaur skeletons that, with the help of lever and pulley systems, move just as the living beasts might have.

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Related Topix: Science, Paleontology, Asheville, NC, Raleigh, NC

Science, Industry and Business

Study provides insight into nesting behavior of dinosaurs

A university study into the incubation behavior of modern birds is shedding new light on the type of parental care carried out by their long extinct ancestors.

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Related Topix: Paleontology, Science, George Mason University, World News, United Kingdom, Lincolnshire County, England

Thu May 16, 2013

Benalla Ensign

Kinder goes prehistoric

Museum Victoria's Discovery program is a mobile service that provides access to Museum Victoria's collections for four-year-old kindergarten groups who may find it difficult to visit one of the museum's venues.

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Related Topix: Science, Paleontology

The Oregonian

Radish Underground makes paleontology fashionable with jewelry made from dinosaur fossils

Gina Johnson Morris, owner of Radish Underground, holds a 65 million-year-old fossilized Triceratops jaw bone she made into a pendant.

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Related Topix: Science, Paleontology, Glendive, MT

StarNewsOnline.com

The Plan: 8 things to do this weekend

Somebody will probably be shouting that a lot this weekend as St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church celebrates its 21st annual Greek Festival Friday, Saturday and Sunday on the church grounds at 608 S. College Road.

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Related Topix: Castle Hayne, NC, Burning Man, Arts, Science, Paleontology, Wilmington, NC

The Columbus Dispatch

Dinosaur exhibit set to open at Columbus Zoo on Friday

Afternoon Update, sent weekday afternoons, keeps you up to date with breaking news and updates from later in the day.

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The Gauntlet

Eggs show link between dinosaurs and birds

Current research done by paleontologists at the University of Calgary and Montana State University has led to a new understanding of how some dinosaurs cared for their eggs.

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Journal-Advocate

Best Bets

Ballet Folklorico Tonatiuh presents, Estampas y Recuerdos, an annual gala, at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday, at the Chamizal National Monument, 800 S. San Mercial.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet, Science, Paleontology, Las Cruces, NM

Wed May 15, 2013

Criminal Report Daily

How to Leave Your Mark in This World -- Forever

The muddy edges of ponds had not only soft materials for making tracks, but microbial mats for preserving the tracks.

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Related Topix: Science, Paleontology, Africa, Congo

McGill Reporter

Bring a Child to Work Day in pictures

More than 200 children whose parents, other relatives or family friends work at McGill flocked to both campuses last Friday to take part in the University's first ever Bring a Child to Work Day.

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Related Topix: Science, Paleontology, End Times

Townsville Bulletin

Discovery gives insight into our evolution

James Cook University geologist Dr Eric Roberts was part of the international team that unearthed the earliest evidence of both Old World monkeys and apes in Tanzania, with fossils more than five million years older than previous remains found to date.

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Fox News

Don't bring back the mammoth, scientist warns

That's the message from Alice Roberts , a clinical anatomist, TV personality and professor of public engagement in science at England's University of Birmingham.

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Related Topix: TED, Science, Paleontology