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Big Fossil 'Raptor' Tracks Show Group Behavior

October, 29 2007 14:03

Everyone knows that “raptor” dinosaurs walked with their deadly sickle-shaped foot claws held off the ground and that they moved in packs ... right? After all, it was in “Jurassic Park.”

But until no

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Digging the Scene: Dinos burrowed, built dens

October, 27 2007 10:11

Paleontologists have unearthed an ancient, sediment-filled burrow that holds remains of the creatures that dug it. The find is the first indisputable evidence that some dinosaurs maintained an undergr

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Behavioral and faunal implications of Early Cretaceous deinonychosaur trackways from China

October, 25 2007 08:38

Li, R., Lockley, M.G., Makovicky, P.J., Matsukawa, M., Norell, M.A., Harris, J.D., and Liu, M. 2007. Behavioral and faunal implications of Early Cretaceous deinonychosaur trackways from China. Naturwi

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Legless, Jurassic crab found in Romania

October, 25 2007 08:36

A new fossil find of a small, legless crab in eastern Romania reveals their habitat was towering sponge reefs during the Jurassic Period.

The fossil was discovered within cylindric

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Michigan paleontologist to take kids on dino dig

October, 25 2007 08:35

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

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Laws under review for fossils on native land

October, 25 2007 08:33

A push is underway, in the heartland of US dinosaur-hunting country, to introduce new laws to regulate the fate of non-human fossils found on Native American lands.

The drive, initiated in Nebraska,

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Adopt Very Own Bones From Dinosaurs

October, 25 2007 08:32

Carnegie Museum of Natural History kicks off the public campaign of Adopt–A–Bone. This innovative and unique campaign allows members of the public to “adopt” their very own bones from dinosaurs like t

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