Dinosaur News

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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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.