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An intact dinosaur skeleton unearthed in Dorset is about to go on public display in Bristol.
The detail on the spiky plant-eating scelidosaurus is so clear it is possible to see the contents of its last meal still in its throat.
Fossil hunter Dave Soul made the discovery near Charmouth eight years ago and kept going back until he had collected the entire dinosaur.

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 Palaeontologists have long been perplexed by dinosaur fossils with missing pieces sets of teeth without a jaw bone, bones that are pitted and grooved, even bones that are half gone. Now a Brigham Young University study identifies a culprit: ancient insects that munched on dinosaur bones.
Brigham Young University  professor Brooks Britt will publish his study of these dinosaur bone-eating bugs in the May 8 issue of the scientific journal Ichnos. Britts idea for this study came when he first noticed the unique markings on the bones as an undergraduate at Brigham Young University.

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State palaeontologist John Hoganson would really like to hear from the person who bought a rare, 65-million-year-old triceratops skeleton at an auction house in Paris earlier this month.
But theres been nothing so far from the individual who bought the 25-foot-long, three-horned dinosaur remains that were found in Bowman County in southwest North Dakota.

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Scientists Study Evidence Modern Birds Came from Dinosaurs
It looks like chickens deserve more respect. Scientists are fleshing out the proof that today's broiler-fryer is descended from the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex. And, not a surprise, they confirmed a close relationship between mastodons and elephants.
Fossil studies have long suggested modern birds were descended from T. rex, based in similarities in their skeletons.
Now, bits of protein obtained from connective tissues in a T. rex fossil shows a relationship to birds including chickens and ostriches, according to a report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

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If someone ever has had any doubts that the earlier the territory of Turkmenistan had been inhabited with dinosaurs, then today now these doubts are completely dispelled. Geologists from Kughitang Exploration Company, a division of TurkmenGeology State Corporation, found petrified saurian footprints in the Eastern Turkmenistan several kilometres away from Maghdanly town. Nobody ever suspected that these footprints had laid next to sulphur quarry (virtually above it) in the North-Eastern side of Gaurdak mountain. According to scientists, the ancient biped saurians inhabited this area in late Jurassic, about 140-145 million years ago.

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Nearly every town and village in Britain was once a stomping ground for dinosaurs, a surprisingly high number of which may have originated here in the country which first discovered them, according to the first major review of Britain's dinosaur history.

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Scientists have discovered a new species of plant-eating dinosaur in Mexico whose large neck frill and three giant horns helped it attract mates and fight predators on a jungly beach 72 million years ago.
Mexico's Coahuila desert -- now rocky and cactus-filled -- was once covered by ocean where dinosaurs of all kinds thrived along the coast and hid from a giant relative of the fierce predator Tyrannosaurus rex.

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Visitors to the Bryce Jordan Center went back in time Thursday night, as Huxley the paleontologist took them on a guided tour through the age of the dinosaurs during Walking With Dinosurs: the Live Experience.
Children and adults alike were awed as 10 species of dinosaur came to life, including Tyrannosaurus Rex, Plateosaurus and Liliensternus from the Triassic period, Stegosaurus and Allosaurus from the Jurassic period and Torosaurus and Utahraptor from the Cretaceous. The largest of the beasts, the Brachiosaurus, stood 36 feet tall, and was 56 feet from nose to tail.
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University of Chicago fossil hunters in Africa have discovered bones of two massive meat-eating dinosaurs that may have picked over the same prey, much as modern-day lions and hyenas do.
In the scientific journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, palaeontologist Paul Sereno and co-author Stephen Brusatte named one Kryptops palaios, or "old hidden face," because of a horny covering over its face.
The other, they named Eocarcharia dinops, or "fierce-eyed dawn shark," for its razor-sharp teeth and bony brow.
Both were about 25 feet long and stood 7 feet high at the hip. Kryptops had a short snout with teeth better for gnawing, leading the scientists to believe he was more of a scavenger.
Eocarcharia's brow was so pronounced that Sereno thinks it was used for head-butting rivals to win over potential mates.

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Seven dino-era feathers found perfectly preserved in amber in western France highlight a crucial stage in feather evolution, scientists report.
The hundred-million-year-old plumage has features of both feather-like fibers found with some two-legged dinosaurs known as theropods and of modern bird feathers.

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