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Popular Mechanics November 16, 2009 Cassie Rodenberg	The Top 8 Dinosaur Discoveries of 2009 For paleontologists who routinely discover new dinosaurs, a good set of eyes, geological know-how and a little luck remain the best tools.
Geotimes November 2007	The Little Dino That Could A flying dinosaur found in Mongolia is so small that it is overturning previous thinking about how and when dinosaurs evolved and took flight.
Geotimes September 2003 Josh Chamot	Dinosaur skeletons in the closet More than 20 years after unearthing a 215 million-year-old skeleton, paleontologists are realizing the value of their find.
Geotimes September 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Large Dinosaurs Ran Hot Size does matter -- at least when it comes to dinosaurs' body temperatures, according to new research. Using growth rate and age information gleaned from fossils, researchers have estimated likely body temperatures for dinosaurs of various sizes, as well as tyrannosaur survival rates.
Geotimes March 2004	Dinosaurs in the cold, dark Antarctic Washington, DC -- Paleontologists recently unearthed two Antarctic dinosaurs' skeletons, representing two new species from very different time periods on the southern continent.
Geotimes November 2004 Laura Stafford	Parenting Psittacosaurus An adult Psittacosaurus and 34 associated juveniles found in the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China, may be evidence of parental care by dinosaurs.
Geotimes July 2005 Megan Sever	Dinosaur Links Meat-Eaters and Vegetarians A new dinosaur, called Falcarius utahensis, has provided a previously missing link between carnivorous and herbivorous therizinosaurs, which lived millions of years apart.
Geotimes March 2005 Megan Sever	Dinosaur-Eating Mammal Recent excavations in China's Liaoning province have uncovered a well-preserved complete skeleton of a dog-sized mammal, alongside a cat-sized mammal that had the remains of its last supper -- a young dinosaur -- fossilized in its stomach.
Geotimes May 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Birds Evolve Small Genomes Pre-Flight The holes in fossil dinosaur bones are pointing out the holes in the theories of bird evolution.
Geotimes August 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Dwarfing Earth's Largest Dinosaur When compared to their counterparts today, animals and plants in the late Jurassic period, about 161 million to 145 million years ago, appear super-sized. Newly discovered dinosaur fossils show, however, that the largest animal to ever walk on Earth also came in a dwarfed version.
Geotimes October 2006 Carolyn Gramling	David Fastovsky: Dinosaur Virtuoso The paleontologist has played the viola in some of the finest dinosaur fossil sites in the world.
Geotimes April 2004 Megan Sever	Tracks in the Colorado Sand University of Colorado researchers recently made a stunning discovery on a golf course: several well-preserved mammal tracks from the age of the dinosaurs.
Smithsonian May 2006 Helen Fields	Dinosaur Shocker New observations could shed light on how dinosaurs evolved and how their muscles and blood vessels worked. And the new findings might help settle a long-running debate about whether dinosaurs were warmblooded, coldblooded -- or both.
Geotimes February 2005 Martin & Case	Fossil Hunting in Antarctica Expeditions to the continent of Antarctica has brought great information about animals in the distant past and show that the world, and particularly Antarctica, was much warmer around 70 million years ago compared to the present.
Geotimes February 2005	Paleontologist for a Day Over the last 10 years, approximately 6,000 visitors have participated in pay-to-dig programs and have found well-preserved remnants of Diplodocus, Camarasaurus, Apatosaurus and Allosaurus (the only meat-eater) fossils, as well as clues to the Jurassic environment.
Geotimes April 2006 Megan Sever	Tiny T. Rex Cousin A new fossil find from China gives paleontologists a better idea of when and how the branch of meat-eating dinosaurs that would eventually lead to T. rex evolved.
Geotimes December 2006	Top Paleontology News Stories of 2006 Filling in hominid gaps... On the hominid migration trail... Probing into fossil details... Evolution back in schools?... etc.
Chemistry World June 23, 2011 Hayley Birch	Dinosaur smile reveals secret to staying cool The levels of rare carbon and oxygen isotopes in fossilised dinosaur teeth suggest that some dinosaurs had body temperatures comparable to modern mammals.
Geotimes January 2006 Philip J. Curie	Fine-Feathered Adventures in China Unearthing the Dragon: The Great Feathered Dinosaur Discovery by Mark Norell is as fine a dinosaur book as it is good travel literature.
Geotimes August 2004 Jay Chapman	Fossil Fetus of Flying Reptile Unearthed The Liaoning specimens were located in lake deposits that were periodically smothered by volcanic ash, preserving the fossils in fine detail. The depth and quality of this fossil resource will continue to make Liaoning a paleontology hot spot in the future.
Geotimes May 2005 Laura Stafford	Style Over Function for Stegosaur Spikes According to new research, the bony growths on the back and tail of Jurassic Stegosaurus were actually meant for species recognition -- so that one Stegosaurus could pick his friends out of a crowd.
Science News September 28, 2008 Sid Perkins	Book Review: A History Of Paleontology Illustration By Jane P. Davidson Although artists have been creating pictures of fossils for more than 500 years, Davidson's book is the first to comprehensively tackle the topic of how those remains have been portrayed through the ages.
Wired Damon Tabor	Q and A: Jack Horner Wants to Re-Create T. Rex From Chickens Flip the right genetic switches in a chicken embryo and you just might hatch a baby dino. Paleontologist Jack Horner intends to do it.
Geotimes August 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Dino Pose Discloses Cause of Death Dinosaur fossils reveal skeleton after skeleton posed with back arched and head and tail thrown back, and new research is finally revealing what caused such tortuous death poses.
Science News September 10, 2005	Dinosaurs! The Smithsonian Institution's dinosaur website lets on-line visitors peruse through their collection as well as view the evolution of the dinosaur.
Geotimes June 2005 Naomi Lubick	Egg-Laying Dinosaurs Because of their three-pronged grasping claw configurations, oviraptors were named "egg thieves," but the dinosaurs' reputation has in recent years shifted from egg-stealing to egg-laying. And a new fossil from China illustrates this.
Geotimes January 2006 Naomi Lubick	Godzilla Had Flippers The blunt-nosed head of a large crocodile-like dinosaur nicknamed Godzilla has given paleontologists a peek at what was probably a ferocious seafaring predator that lived about 140 million years ago.
Chemistry World June 14, 2013 Michael Parkin	Plumage pattern revealed in 150 million-year-old bird An international team of scientists has used synchrotron-based imaging techniques to chemically map the feather colors of a 150 million-year-old bird. The study reveals that the dinosaur had feathers which were light in colour with a dark edge and tip, rather than all black as previously thought.
Geotimes April 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Fossil Bites Into Mammal Stereotypes Paleontologists uncovered the fossil of a large beaver-like mammal in China that lived on land and likely fished in lakes. The discovery could tear down previous stereotypes that mammals, while living alongside dinosaurs, could not develop extensive specialization.
Geotimes September 2007 Marilyn Keane	A Huge Discovery in Wyoming A geologist and a band of volunteers digging on private land in Wyoming discovered a spectacular skeleton of a 150-million-year-old Camarasaurus.
Geotimes June 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Penguins Endure Extinction Event Fossil and genetic evidence suggest that penguin ancestors living about 65 million years ago survived even more extreme conditions than they do today, including the impact that may have led to the demise of the dinosaurs.
Geotimes April 2007 Kathryn Hansen	T. Rex Tissue Yields Genetically Revealing Proteins The family tree of an infamous dinosaur is coming to life before researchers' eyes. Scientists say they extracted protein from a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex leg bone that supports a genetic link between dinosaurs and birds.
Chemistry World May 10, 2010 Mike Brown	Chemical secrets of dinobird revealed Analysis of tissue samples from prehistoric feathers and bone preserved for over 150 million years have confirmed the link between dinosaurs and modern birds, say scientists.
Geotimes June 2003 Greg Peterson	Cannibal dinosaurs During the Late Cretaceous, a predatory dinosaur named Majungatholus atopus roamed the plains of what is now northwestern Madagascar. A study in the April 3 Nature now suggests that when times got tough, and food sources became scarce, the dinosaur turned to its own kind for a meal.
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick	Broken bones yield T. rex tissue When researchers reluctantly sliced a Tyrannosaurus rex femur in half to get it out of the field, they found something completely unexpected -- the original structure of blood vessels and other soft tissues. Might DNA testing reveal detailed information on the genetic code of T. rex, and more?
Reason December 2005 Jesse Walker	Artifact: Dinosaurs vs. Darwin Creationists have been buying roadside dinosaur parks around the country and turning them into anti-evolution museums.
Science News July 31, 2004	From the July 28, 1934, Issue Twelve Swamp Dinosaurs Found by Museum Party... Old Violin Makers' Secrets Revealed by x-Ray Analysis... Cancer Caused by Virus Present in Even Normal Cells...
Chemistry World December 23, 2015	Bones of contention Can protein in dinosaur bones survive for millions of years? Rachel Brazil explores the evidence.
Geotimes October 2004 Laura Stafford	T. Rex Hits Puberty New research based on growth ring counts from the bones of Tyrannosaurus rex shows that the dinosaur put on the bulk of its mass during its teenage years and then died shortly after its growth spurt.
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Jean Kumagai	Nels Peterson: He Digs Dinosaurs Old Bones: An engineer among paleontologists offers a different way of thinking and looking at things.
Science News March 18, 2000	MathTrek: Whips and Dinosaur Tails The physics behind the noice of cracking a whip, and mathematical simulation to see if a dinosaur's tail could be used as a whip.
D-Lib March 2003 Bonita Wilson	Strange Science The website Strange Science presents a primarily light-hearted look at some of the stumbles along the path to discovery in natural science.
U.S. CPSC December 17, 2008	Xtreme Toy Zone Recalls Toy Dinosaurs Due to Violation of Lead Paint Standard Surface paint on the toy dinosaurs can contain excessive levels of lead, violating the federal lead paint standard.
Chemistry World July 24, 2015 Michael Spencelayh	Mineral analysis surveys shark smile evolution New research by scientists in Germany has uncovered a curious difference between present-day shark teeth and those of their prehistoric relatives.
Geotimes December 2005 Megan Sever	Correcting the Fossil Record Recently, paleontologists have been working on ways to fill in gaps in life's diversity record, and some researchers are finding that climate change -- including greenhouse gas warming -- may play a pivotal role in preserving fossil assemblages.
Geotimes June 2004 Naomi Lubick	Domed Dinos Made Love Not War In the 1950s, paleontologists hypothesized that dinosaurs with skulls shaped like bowling balls butted heads, much like sheep or other modern horned animals might. But a recent reassessment of some of these fossils revealed something quite different.
Salon.com June 1, 2000 Donald D. Groff	Digging for dinosaurs Our expert offers tips on family-oriented dino sites, historic Route 66 and Welsh bardic tourneys.
Reactive Reports Issue 64 David Bradley	Dino Remains We have not quite entered Jurassic Park, but researchers have successfully extracted protein from a 68 million year old Tyrannosaurus rex bone.
Salon.com May 19, 2000 Michael Sragow	"Dinosaur" Bambi meets Godzilla: Disney goes for the goo in a by-turns gory and sappy new epic of computer-generated images.
Chemistry World April 12, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Preserved T. Rex Proteins Assist Evolution Studies Palaeontologists and biochemists have joined forces to identify proteins from a 68-million-year-old T. Rex, showing that organic matter containing biological information can be preserved for enormous lengths of time under the right conditions.