| Paleo News Story Headlines Archive |
| New history museum breaks ground | An audience of about 250 people applauded in unison as six golden shovels were thrust into the soil in a lot next to Bidwell Mansion on Thursday.
The Orion Online 2008-04-30 |
| Addicted to the ancient | Many children have a healthy fascination with dinosaur fossils, but Pete Nesbitt never grew out of it.
GainesvilleTimes.com 2008-04-29 |
| Official hopes fossil comes home | State paleontologist John Hoganson says he hopes whoever bought a 65-million-year-old triceratops skeleton at an auction house in Paris will consider putting the skeleton in its home state.
Bismarck Tribune 2008-04-29 |
| Remains of another giant sea reptile found | Archaeologists will this summer excavate fossils of another giant sea reptile on the Arctic island of Svalbard. Last summer the remains of the world's largest Pliosaurus was excavated.
The Norway Post 2008-04-28 |
| Georgia swamp gator skeleton to be displayed | The most famous resident of Okefenokee Swamp Park - an alligator that attracted the stares of tourists for decades - will soon be immortalized nearly a year after his death.
Charlotte.com 2008-04-28 |
| SAUR DINO | South Wales was once one of the world’s leading hotspots for dinosaurs, experts have discovered.
icWales.com 2008-04-27 |
| "Body of Evidence" casts light on evolution | A new exhibit at Philadelphia's University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology about human evolution gives a new meaning to the expression "nobody's perfect."
APP.com 2008-04-27 |
| Passion for dinosaurs leads to major discovery | Lots of kids are into dinosaurs. Tyler Lyson says he just never grew out of it. He grew up in rural North Dakota and says fossils were more widespread there than in other places in the U.S.
CNN.com 2008-04-26 |
| DNA tells big story of T.rex's link to chickens | It may seem unfathomable, but DNA testing has shown the towering Tyrannasaurus rex's closest living animal relatives include the humble chicken, a new study has found.
TodayOnline.com 2008-04-26 |
| Shell-breaking Crabs Lived 20 Million Years Earlier Than Thought | While waiting for colleagues at a small natural history museum in Mexico last year, Cornell paleontologist Greg Dietl chanced upon a discovery that has helped rewrite the evolutionary history of crabs and the shelled mollusks upon which they preyed.
Science Daily 2008-04-23 |
| ‘Paleo Joe’ visits school | Paleo Joe held up a piece of fossil to the group of students Monday, and said, It’s like Dino-poop, adding, Let’s all say ‘eew’ together.
Daily Press 2007-10-30 |
| Dinosaurs' Lost World Reborn At Carnegie Museum | The $36 million revamped exhibit Dinosaurs in their Time is only a few weeks away from opening day. The carpet is down and the exhibit’s mural capturing the dinosaurs’ environment won an international award last week.
KDKA.com 2007-10-26 |
| Energy Museum's Dinosaur Day: Up-scale fossil fun downtown | Dinosaur Day, the Texas Energy Museum's annual outdoor program of hands on activities about dinosaurs, fossils, and paleontologists, will be held on the grounds of the Museum in downtown Beaumont on Saturday, Oct. 27, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m
Beaumont Journal 2007-10-24 |
| Oldest natural history museum gets help | America's oldest natural history institution, Academy of Natural Sciences, has no intention of going the way of the dinosaur, but its nearly two centuries in existence have been almost as bumpy as the hide of a Carnotaurus.
Yahoo! News 2007-10-24 |
| Michigan paleontologist to take kids on dino dig | Ask Joe Kchodl his favorite word, and he just might say, Paleo-rific! Digging for fossilized dinosaurs is paleo-rific. Getting kids interested in science is paleo-rific too, but combining the two is about as good as it gets.
The Daily Press 2007-10-24 |
| A fossil found in Utah reveals an unknown species | Scientists at the Utah Museum of Natural History have announced a discovery with some bite. The fossil of a skull unearthed in 2004 is from a previously unknown species of duck-billed dinosaur. The creature had hundreds of teeth inside its giant beak.
NorthJersey.com 2007-10-24 |
| Lots To Do On Dinosaur Park Day | Dinosaur State Park Day, highlighting the 2,000 early-Jurassic footprints discovered there, is scheduled for Aug. 18 with a full day of activities and programs.
courant.com 2007-08-08 |
| Illegally Exported Fossils Returned To Argentine Republic | The Australian Government has shown a strong commitment to stopping the flow of illegally exported cultural heritage by formally returning 130 kilograms of seized dinosaur and plant fossils to the Ambassador of the Argentine Republic.
independent news world 2007-08-07 |
| Fossil shows life may have come out of the sea | Geologists have discovered 1.43 billion-year-old fossils of deep-sea microbes, providing more evidence that life may have originated on the bottom of the ocean.
The Times of India 2007-08-05 |
| Cracking open a dinosaur lesson | Peering through black-rimmed glasses, Alex Horn was poised over a solid block of sand, hammer and chisel in hand.He hit the block with the small silver instrument, attempting to reach the off-white bones of a creature buried inside.
baltimoresun.com 2007-08-05 |
| Mastodon Camp brings bones to life | An honors student said "I just wanted to see what the day is like in the life of a paleontologist," thinking of her future profession.
The Naperville Sun 2007-08-05 |
| Former student spends summer finding dinosaur fossils | Bob Boscarelli, a former UF student, has been participating in digs in Shell, Wyo., each summer for the past four years with a team of three or four volunteers under paleontologist Bob Simon.
The Independent Florida Alligator 2007-08-04 |
| Horner shows off latest fossils to London audience | London was calling this week for Jack Horner, Montana's famous paleontologist, who explained his latest fossil finds from the badlands of Eastern Montana to a live audience in England via the magic of satellite video.
Bozeman Daily Chronicle 2007-08-04 |
| Dinosaur bones: the latest status symbol | Dinosaur bones and all sorts of fossils are increasingly hot right now. Hollywood heavy-hitters and the mega-rich types from the Middle East love this stuff,
Telegraph.co.uk 2007-08-04 |
| Field Museum leads mastodon search | Jessie Dorsz hoped to at least find a bone or maybe a piece of tusk as she combed her fingers through scoops of dirt she deposited into a heaping bucket Friday at James "Pate" Phillip State Park.
BeaconNewsOnline.com 2007-08-04 |
| Fossil of huge prehistoric croc found on Grand Staircase | 30-foot-long super-crocodile - packing a snout full of jagged 5-inch teeth - rivaled a T-rex when it cruised prehistoric waterways, snacking on 10-foot sturgeons and devouring large land-dwelling dinosaurs that ventured near the shores for a drink.
The Salt Lake Tribune 2007-08-03 |
| Toeprint in Golden may be T. rex track | Tyrannosaurus rex left behind fossilized bones when its reign ended 65 million years ago, but the hulking carnivore's three-toed footprints have proved elusive.
DenverPost.com 2007-08-02 |
| Milwaukee museum acquires mammoth bones | A retiree who stumbled across the ancient fossils of a woolly mammoth in his cornfield 13 years ago has finally turned the cold hard bones into cold hard cash.
marshfieldnewsherald.com 2007-07-31 |
| Big find for local dinosaur hunter | Spotsylvania paleontologist working in Wyoming unearths nearly complete skeleton of a Jurassic dinosaur called a camarasaurus
The Free Lance-Star 2007-07-31 |
| Geneticists giddy over dodo-bird fossil, ‘Fred’ | The remains of a dodo found in a cave beneath bamboo and tea plantations in Mauritius offer the best chance yet to learn about the extinct flightless bird, a scientist said on Friday.
MSNBC News 2007-07-02 |
| Ancient oak serves as impartial witness to Utah's climate history | A rare and ancient hybrid scrub oak offers a glimpse into the Great Basin's warm climatic past and a clue to its possibly even warmer future. The hybrid, the result of a romance between an unlikely couple, has fascinated Utah biologists for five decades.
The Salt Lake Tribune 2007-07-02 |
| Fossils 2007: The golden age of dinosaurs | Discoveries as far apart as China, South Africa and Spain have put some meaningful flesh on the fossilised bones of the biggest-ever beasts to walk the land. With each new discovery, dinosaurs are becoming a little less mysterious than they once seemed.
The Independent 2007-06-27 |
| City Site Was Dinosaur Dining Room | A dinosaur bone bed in southwest Edmonton that served as a feeding area for the direct ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex has revealed that two dinosaurs, thought to have lived in different eras, actually lived at the same time
Science Daily 2007-06-29 |
| Local team has successful dino dig | This year Steve Simpson shared one of Highland Community Colleges's 15-passenger van's with seven students and their luggage for a 15-hour trek out to Montana.
The Journal Standard DAILY 2007-06-29 |
| Malta's Murphy steps down after carving name in paleontology | Malta paleontologist Nate Murphy, whose discovery of the mummified dinosaur Leonardo graced the pages of Newsweek and National Geographic, is resigning July 1 from his position at the Dinosaur Field Station.
The Great Falls Tribune 2007-06-30 |
| Board sets budget for fossil project | The planned fossil discovery center at the Fairmead Landfill moved one step closer to completion with the Board of Supervisors establishing the project's budget.
Madera Tribune 2007-06-28 |
| Shivalik Hills, a home to pre-historic fossils | Not many may know that wild animals like giraffe and hippopotamus, whose present natural habitat is Africa, were natives of Shivalik Hills long ago. Pre-historic fossils, recently discovered, establish this.
newkerala.com 2007-06-28 |
| T. Rex Attack! | The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (http://www.itsatrip.org/events/summer) announces the opening of its newest permanent exhibit -- T. REX ATTACK!
Yahoo.com 2007-06-28 |
| Them old bones talk | The creek-front fossil bed reveals that a pair of duck-billed plant-eating dinosaurs thought to have lived in different eras and locations actually existed in the same location at the same time.
cnews.canoe.ca 2007-06-27 |
| Fossils fuel call for other reservoir site | A key site in Colorado Springs’ water-supply plan for the next 35 years contains valuable fossils and rock formations, according to a leading scientist who wants them preserved.
The Gazette 2007-06-27 |
| New fossils alter view of penguins | Researchers reported Monday that they have unearthed two fossil penguins, one of which stood 5 feet tall, that lived in the warm climate of prehistoric Peru - a discovery that promises to change the way scientists think about penguins and cold weather.
Mercurynews.com 2007-06-26 |
| Fossils of prehistoric creature found near Aspen | Approximately 200 million years ago, a large marine reptile, perhaps foraging along the shoreline of an inland sea in what would one day be Colorado, died and sank into the gathering silt and organic debris to ultimately become a fossil.
Vail Daily 2007-06-26 |
| Dinosaurs are gone, but their bones are all about | On this wide and windy, high desert plain, 40 miles northwest of Laramie, there are dinosaur bones sticking out of the ground that look like chunks of iron or mahogany, and sometimes, in sunshine, glint like gold.
Post-Gazette.com 2007-06-24 |
| When did placental and marsupial mammals split? | According to the fossil record, our ancestors didn't split into modern groups of placental and marsupial mammals until after the dinosaurs bit the dust at the end of the Cretaceous, 65 million years ago.
New Scientist Tech 2007-06-20 |
| Carnegie exhibit features 'colossal' dino-skeletons | Diplodocus carnegii is back in Pittsburgh. On Monday, in an air-conditioned hall at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Oakland, artists wielding pencil-sized flathead screwdrivers carefully put that animal's bones back together.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 2007-06-05 |
| Real or myth? 2 museums showcase fossils | Extraordinary fossils at the new Creation Museum including one that preserves a perch with a half-eaten herring in its mouth and extraordinary creatures at the AMNH in a show including a life-size unicorn, a gold griffin and not a few dragons.
International Herald Tribune 2007-06-04 |
| Researcher: Stegosaur babies made tracks | Researcher Matt Mossbrucker believes four small dinosaur tracks found within sight of the skyscrapers of downtown Denver were made by two stegosaur babies, a find he says would be "incredibly rare."
Associated Press. 2007-05-29 |
| Museum exhibit traces origins dragons | A new exhibit pairs an unusual subject -- dragons and other fantastic creatures -- with an unlikely location: a science museum. "Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns and Mermaids," at the American Museum of Natural History, runs through Jan. 6,2007.
NorthJersey.com 2007-06-01 |
| Old bones stand tall at airport | The Fernbank Museum of Natural History curators wanted some place to bring the Yangchuanosaur, called The Asian Giant, into the view of the public. Where better than the highly public Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport?
Henry Daily Herald 2007-06-03 |
| Museum returning bones | The Smithsonian Institution is to 'repatriate' the skeletal remains of six American Indians by turning them over to the Nisqually tribe.
Miami Herald 2007-06-03 |
| Australia's biggest dinosaurs uncovered | Fossil bones from the largest dinosaurs ever known to walk Australia were on Thursday unveiled in a find, which scientists said, shed new light on the country's prehistoric past.
hindustantimes.com 2007-05-03 |
| Dinosaur digger found in its own burrow | A dinosaur family has been discovered which, researchers say, lived and died in an underground burrow. Palaeontologists say it is the first solid evidence that dinosaurs lived in burrows and that adults cared for juveniles long after they had hatched.
NewScientist.com 2007-03-21 |
| Dinosaur digger found in its own burrow | A dinosaur family has been discovered which apparently lived and died in an underground burrow. Palaeontologists say it is the first solid evidence that dinosaurs lived in burrows and that adults cared for juveniles long after they had hatched.
New Scientist Tech 2007-03-21 |
| Fossil discovery provides link in evolution of the middle ear | A fossil of a newly-discovered, chipmunk-sized mammal that roamed the world with the dinosaurs 125 million years ago provides a missing link in the evolution of the middle ear, according to a researcher at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 2007-03-14 |
| Students get lesson on fossils | Fred Mazza of Paleo Discoveries, visited the second grade at Palm Beach Day Academy's Flagler Campus to present his "Fossil Discovery Hour."
Palmbeachdailynews.com 2007-03-12 |
| Museum bones legal fight 'a waste' of $1m | AN Aboriginal group has broken ranks to oppose costly legal action aimed at stopping a British museum conducting tests on indigenous remains.
The Australian 2007-02-24 |
| You'll dig this excursion | For one week last summer, Kim Cairns and her great-niece, 13-year-old Tyler Hougas of Ottawa, went on an adventure of a lifetime to the Badlands of Montana in search of dinosaur bones millions of years old.
Pantagraph.com 2007-02-12 |
| Outcry over keeping skeleton in closet | Deep in the dusty, unlit corridors of Kenya's national museum, locked away in a plain-looking cabinet, is one of mankind's oldest relics: Turkana Boy, as he is known, the most complete skeleton of a prehistoric human ever found.
SouthBendTribune.com 2007-02-07 |
| Landmark fossil discovery | Scientists digging for fossils in Central Otago have uncovered some surprising clues about New Zealand's past, believing they may have stumbled across a previously unknown group of mammals.
tvnz.co.com 2007-01-13 |
| Director quits natural history museum for Phoenix job | Several months away from opening its new dinosaur hall -- hoped to be a top-tier cultural attraction in the city -- the Carnegie Museum of Natural History is losing its director to a new museum in Arizona.
Post-Gazett.com 2007-01-10 |
| Movie Draws Thousands To Natural History Museum | The American Museum of Natural History has seen a 20 percent boost in attendance,and museum officials attribute some of the increase to the film that stars Ben Stiller as a museum night watchman who must deal with exhibits that come to life.
wnbc.com 2007-01-10 |
| Fresh fossils are best for DNA | Nature knows best when it comes to preserving fossil DNA. New research has found that the DNA in fossils cleaned and preserved in museum collections degrades about 70 times faster than in bones left buried in the ground.
newscientist.com 2007-01-08 |
| Joshua Tree museum a tribute to son's curiosity | Joshua Boswell was curious about things that fell from outer space. He would join his parents, Terry and Susan Boswell, on archeological digs, scouring for meteorite remnants, gems, minerals and fossils.
South Bend Tribune 2006-12-29 |
| Museum offering rare fossil exhibit | The fossil of a feathered dinosaur that rarely leaves China will highlight a new exhibit opening Wednesday at the Virginia Museum of Natural History Research and Collections Center.
Martinsville Bulleton 2006-12-28 |
| Next big question - to whiten or not | A major decision awaits the Sabah Museum Director in the task to preserve the mammoth bones of the recently salvaged Bryde's whale - whether to display the skeleton in its natural shade or to bleach them white.
Daily Express 2006-12-28 |
| Mammoth featured at museum | Mammoth bones dug up in Gilbert last year will be among those displayed in a new exhibit on Ice-Age pachyderms at Mesa Southwest Museum next month.
azcentral.com 2006-12-02 |
| 'Dinosaur trees' heavily guarded | Thousands of rare baby "dinosaur" trees have been placed under 24-hour security to protect them before they go on sale.
BBC News 2006-12-02 |
| Rare dinosaur nest up for auction | An extremely rare and well-preserved dinosaur nest containing fossil eggs with the embryos exposed goes up for auction this weekend, but at least one scientist is demanding the artifact be returned to a museum.
MontereyHerald.com 2006-12-01 |
| Age of the Dinosaurs Vividly Portrayed in New Novel "Hell Creek" | A new novel by two scientists takes the reader back in time 65 million years to an accurate and evocative depiction of the North American late Cretaceous Period. Titled Hell Creek, the book uses Montana's Hell Creek Formation as its basis.
PRWeb.com 2006-11-27 |
| Who are Truth in Science? | Truth in Science (TiS) is a UK-based private organisation funded by donations from individuals.
Guardian Unlimited 2006-11-27 |
| Let us test Darwin, teacher says | Science teaching materials deemed "not appropriate" by the government should be allowed in class, Education Secretary Alan Johnson has been urged.
BBC News 2006-11-27 |
| Lampreys 'living fossils,' scientists say | Modern-day lampreys, the eel-like creatures that survive by sucking the blood of other fishes, appear to be "living fossils" that have remained largely unaltered by evolution for millions of years, new fossil evidence indicates.
DallasNews.com 2006-11-26 |
| What lies beneath our dinosaur discoveries? | THEY may have become extinct 65 million years ago, but those dinosaurs just won't lie down, at least so far as the discovery and interpretation of their fossilised remains are concerned.
The Scotsman 2006-11-25 |
| Missouri's ONLY Dinosaur | It's every kids dream, you're digging in your backyard and discover dinosaur bones.
KFVS12 2006-11-24 |
| A sip of zinfandel, a walk past giants | "Tasting-room décor" is what Don and Karyn Litchfield jokingly call the minerals, fossils and dinosaur replicas displayed for visitors at their winery at Vino Piazza.
RecordNet.com 2006-11-23 |
| Meet Jane Dino: An oldie but goodie | She's Jane, a tweener Tyrannosaurus rex, a long-legged beauty of a dinosaur who made her debut at the museum Tuesday morning just in time for the holidays.
Times Online 2006-11-22 |
| China donates ancient fossils to WA museum | The Chinese Government has donated four ancient fossils to the Western Australian museum, two years after they were seized in a Federal Police raid south of Perth.
Yahoo! News 2006-11-22 |
| New evolution standards may take time | While Kansas public schools are likely to get their fifth set of science standards in eight years, the officials who want to ditch the anti-evolution ones now in place aren't planning to act immediately.
ArkCity.net 2006-11-22 |
| So what's with all the dinosaurs? | The world's first Creationist museum - dedicated to the idea that the creation of the world, as told in Genesis, is factually correct - will soon open. Stephen Bates is given a sneak preview and asks: was there really a tyrannosaurus in the Bible?
Guardian Unlimited 2006-11-13 |
| Dinomite | When I first heard about Dinosaur World, an outdoor attraction near Mammoth Cave National Park that features more than 100 life-sized dinosaur models, I suspected it might simply be a massive display of oversized, bad yard art.
Courier-Journal 2006-11-12 |
| No bones about it, Sue's a huge hit | Sue made her Cleveland debut Saturday, and she didn't disappoint. There she regally stood, a 42-foot-long, 13-foot-tall skeleton with prehistoric roots, causing a modern-day stir.
Plain Dealer 2006-11-12 |
| Why can't God and science be compatible? | "God vs. Science -- a spirited debate between atheist biologist Richard Dawkins and Christian geneticist Francis Collins'' blared the cover of Time magazine this week.
Chicago Suntimes 2006-11-12 |
| Ice-age genome project faces cold storage | AFTER a tantalisingly successful run at sequencing parts of the extinct woolly mammoth's genome, the project is now stalled for lack of funds
NewScientist.com 2006-11-11 |
| That shell? It's a dinosaur tooth | Nancy Connery has a special piece of Boca Grande history around her neck, and she found out just how special from a rock star, of all people, who told her the piece is actually a dinosaur tooth.
Boca Beacon 2006-11-10 |
| Study of fossils' teeth gives clues about extinction | The life and ultimate extinction of a robust creature that walked on two legs across the woods and grassy plains of South Africa more than 2 million years ago has always puzzled anthropologists.
The San Francisco Chronicle 2006-11-10 |
| Creation V Evolution Debate | Following the live debate on ZB this week an ever increasing world controversy is developing over ‘Intelligent Design’ and ‘Scientific Creationism’ questioning established theories of evolution.
Scoop Independent News 2006-11-10 |
| New forum begins with creation | A new argument in the endless debate on evolution versus creationism was presented at the first President's Forum on Current Issues and Controversies.
The Maroon 2006-11-10 |
| Spectacular Dinosaur Skull Comes Back To Alberta | A "spectacular beast" is coming back to its original stomping grounds and making a new home at the University of Alberta--a coup that will allow its researchers to study the rare dinosaur skull up close
ScienceDaily 2006-11-08 |
| Fossils donated to Utah museum | The Lehi Hutchings Museum will add 25,000 fossils to its collection a half-million dollar gift from a Utah man who spent his life collecting the specimens.
Yahoo! News 2006-11-08 |
| Fossil Is Missing Link In Elephant Lineage | A pig-sized, tusked creature that roamed the earth some 27 million years ago is said to represent a missing link between the oldest known relatives of elephants and the more recent group from which modern elephants descended.
ScienceDaily 2006-11-06 |
| Dinosaur finds home in the Triangle | The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences has a new resident a big one. A joint team of paleontologists from the museum and from North Carolina State University have excavated a 67-million-year-old duck-billed dinosaur from Montana.
rdu.news14.com 2006-11-05 |
| Replica skeletons now on display at Dinosaur World | A life size Triceratops skeleton now guards the entrance to the Dinosaur Walk at Dinosaur World in Cave City. Triceratops has long been a favorite among the prehistoric giants and Dinosaur World is proud to showcase this new exhibit.
News-Democrat & Leader 2006-11-05 |
| Gems, rocks, fossils, oh my! | The 52nd annual Gem, Mineral and Fossil show at Redwood Acres took place Saturday. Members of the Humboldt Gem and Mineral Society displayed rocks of all kinds in cases for visitors to get a close look at minerals, rocks and fossils.
The Eureka Reporter 2006-11-05 |
| New Phylum Sheds Light On Ancestor Of Animals, Humans | Genetic analysis of an obscure, worm-like creature retrieved from the depths of the North Atlantic has led to the discovery of a new phylum, a rare event in an era when most organisms have already been grouped into major evolutionary categories.
ScienceDaily 2006-11-05 |
| Day Trips: Crosbyton dinosaur museum a must-see | The Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum in Crosbyton is a "must see" for anyone even mildly interested in dinosaurs. Run by a real-life dinosaur hunter, the private museum displays a unique collection of bones with interesting stories to match.
TheEagle.com 2006-11-05 |
| Future paleontologists will dig this atlas | The "Dinosaur Atlas," written by John Malam and John Woodward, consists of almost 100 pages of information on every prehistoric creature you can imagine.
The Washington Times 2006-11-04 |
| Getting the dirt on fossil site isn’t very informative | In December 2002, a farmer in Darke County called and said he had found some dinosaur bones in his field. I explained how that was highly unlikely, since Ohio has no rocks from the right time. I suggested he bring them in for me to see.
The Columbus Dispatch 2006-10-31 |
| Chinese dinosaur exhibit Virginia bound | Paleontologist Nick Fraser will chaperone an exhibit of feathered dinosaurs from China to the Virginia Museum of Natural History as he prepares to search for Asian cousins of Virginia fossils.
TimesDispatch.com 2006-10-30 |
| Trotting With Emus To Walk With Dinosaurs | One way to make sense of 165-million-year-old dino tracks may be to hang out with emus, say paleontologists studying thousands of dinosaur footprints at the Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite in northern Wyoming.
ScienceDaily 2006-10-30 |
| Arctic island hides 'sea' of dinosaur fossils | Last week, Norwegian scientists discovered a new set of fossils on Svalbard Island, an island in the chain by the same name located in the middle of the Arctic Circle, between Norway and the North Pole.
The Triangle Online 2006-10-13 |
| Life in Fossils | The Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology in Hemet will hold its much-anticipated grand opening this weekend, allowing the public to see the elaborate exhibits and rare fossils from the Ice Age.
PE.com 2006-10-12 |
| Dinosaurs invade mall | Dinosaur Dynasty, an interactive display of dinosaurs, fossils and educational materials will be on display Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Cedar Creek Mall in Rothschild.
wausau daily herald 2006-10-11 |
| Irrigation deal the 'magic wand' to preserve fossils | For decades, paleontologists have watched the richest deposit of fossils from the prehistoric period known as the Pliocene Epoch crushed to dust by frequent landslides crashing off the face of 600-foot-high bluffs along Idaho's Snake River.
The Salt Lake Tribune 2006-10-10 |
| Dinosaur expert to bring tales to town | Jack Horner is this year's guest for the Rochester School for the Deaf's Adventures in Education program. He'll give a public presentation and also be talking with students, who have been busy studying about dinosaurs in preparation for his visit.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 2006-10-10 |
| Dinosaur ate own young? That’s a croc, fossil says | Bones preserved inside the fossilized stomach of an adult Coelophysis, long believed to be the remnants of a snack-sized baby Coelophysis and the primary evidence for cannibalism by that species, are bones from a crocodile of sorts
Journal Gazette 2006-10-09 |
| Fossils magnified | A macro-photograph of a Ginkgo huttoni is on display at the Utah Museum of Natural History's newest exhibit, "Ancient Microworlds: Fossils Up Close."
DeseretNews.com 2006-10-06 |
| Finally, scientists are fighting mad | In a state where public educators are afraid to put the word "evolution" in science aptitude tests and where the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor thinks biblical creationism counts as science, the Colorado Evolution Response Team objects
DenverPost.com 2006-10-05 |
| Utah and China dinosaur bones share ancient connection | Many ancient bones found in Utah share an ancient connection to finds coming out of China. Kirkland, Utah's state paleontologist, is wrapping up a two-week trip to China to help put some of his Utah discoveries into better context.
The Salt Lake Tribune 2006-10-02 |
| Prehistoric Park | Natural history expert Nigel Marven makes like a time-travelling David Attenborough and goes back millions of years to track down prehistoric animals and insects.
NZHerald.co.nz. 2006-09-10 |
| Elementary students get a look at fossil dig | A fossil dig near Larimore has uncovered the bones of a mosasaur, a dinosaur-like creature that swam in the area millions of years ago. And elementary students have been getting a front-row seat.
KXNet.com 2006-09-07 |
| First dinosaur for Restless Planet | Restless Planet, the DHS 1.1 billion world class dinosaur theme park at City of Arabia have taken delivery of their very first dinosaur.
Mena Report 2006-09-06 |
| The Largest Dinosaur Graveyard in Asia | Recently a large number of dinosaur fossils were discovered in the Erlianyanchi Dinosaur Reserve in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
The Epoch Times 2006-09-06 |
| Mollusk Fossils Push Back Evolution | Paleontologists have discovered dozens of fossils of a soft- bodied, deep-sea dweller that lived more than half a billion years ago, adding one more piece to the enigmatic puzzle that is the history of life on Earth.
RedOrbit 2006-09-06 |
| Montana has lots of dinos, but paleontologists are few | There are millions of acres of land out there and only 100 paleontologists, said David Trexler, who with his mother, Marion Brandvold, found the world's first baby dinosaur bones at Egg Mountain near Choteau.
BillingsGazette.com 2006-09-06 |
| New fossil discoveries near Winton | Volunteers digging for dinosaur bones in western Queensland have begun to unearth what could be significant fossil discoveries.
ABC News Online 2006-09-05 |
| Largest Stegosaur Back Plate Found in China | A lot of dinosaur fossils have been found in Dinosaur Valley. Recently, the largest known stegosaur fossil was excavated from two of the digging sites in the Dinosaur Valley.
The Epoch Times 2006-09-05 |
| Discover dinosaurs at Oregon Zoo this weekend | Children become young paleontologists during a Dino Dig adventure 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 9-10, in the Tiger Plaza at the Oregon Zoo. Dino Dig is free with paid zoo admission.
Oregon Live 2006-09-05 |
| Furious evolution debate hits famed Kenyan museum | The global debate between scientists and conservative Christians over evolution has hit Kenya, where an exhibit of one of the world's finest collections of early hominid fossils is under threat.
The Journal Times 2006-09-05 |
| U. Earth museum move is debated | Debate over planning for the Utah Museum of Natural History's future home at Research Park in Salt Lake City continues with a public hearing today.
Salat Lake Tribune 2006-09-05 |
| Readers dig up dino story to tout creationism | Unearthed five years ago in the badlands north of Malta, Leonardo is the world's best-preserved dinosaur — his skin, muscles and organs are still intact.
Great Falls Tribune 2006-09-03 |
| Our most beautiful country | For some, Ghost Ranch is synonymous with Georgia O’Keeffe, whose iconic paintings of northern New Mexico’s Chama River Valley defined her artistic vision.
Pueblo Chieftain 2006-09-03 |
| T-REX dig a dino letdown | Curator hoped to find local evidence of cataclysmic change. The road project moved too fast for paleontologists to locate the geologic division between dinosaurs and more-modern species.
DenverPost.com 2006-09-02 |
| Huge numbers of dinosaurs lie in wait | They are natural history’s superstars, yet we know surprisingly little about the diversity of dinosaurs. Now a mathematical model provides an estimate of how many different genera of dinosaurs there were.
New Scientist 2006-09-01 |
| Stolen dinosaur fossils recovered | Stolen fossilised dinosaur footprints, 200 million years old and from a protected site, have been found after being advertised on eBay.
BBC News 2006-08-30 |
| Prairie Voices: 80 million B.C. | Once upon a time, North Dakota was covered by an inland sea, and aquatic dinosaurs swam the breadth of state, paleontologist says
GrandForksHerald.com 2006-08-27 |
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