Rareresource: April 2008

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Friday, April 18, 2008

Dino skeleton found on seashore

Not necessary to call scientists over the discovery of a large green dinosaur skeleton in Vernon Thursday morning. A city parks employee discovered the artificial bones on Kin seashore, a short outing from where it can generally be found, decorate the rooftop of the Okanagan Science Centre.

" Friday night somebody went up on the top and pushed off the skeleton "On Saturday morning people saw it on the land, somebody had pulled out the pieces and put down it in garbage cans. I was quite troubled about it for the reason that our volunteers spent hours to redecorate it.

"I guesstimate our dinosaur is not destroyed after all. "Plans were being prepared by the science centre to pick up the skeleton. The skeleton was completed by the late Marg Simm, one of the motivating forces at the back of the creation of the science centre.

Source: bclocalnews.com

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Dinosaur Museum in tender to pass Rare Triceratops Skeleton to Britain

The rare skeleton is the belongings of a private collector in Europe and is the celebrity attraction of a deal of dinosaur and other fossils at the public sale in Paris. It is estimated to obtain around 500,000 Euros but may possibly go a great deal higher as it has engrossed worldwide attention. "It would be truly wonderful if we could carry the dinosaur to Britain and in exacting The Dinosaur Museum in Dorchester""Not only is it the only one of its variety in Europe, although normally Britain does not contain any complete skeletons of this calibre. Most of the digs out dinosaurs in Britain are incomplete in similarity. Triceratops was not inhabitant to Britain but it would be grand for people to see such a momentous skeleton in the U.K"

The 7.5 meter ie, 24 foot long Triceratops is the only one of its variety in Europe. The skeleton, Triceratops horridus a three horned gigantic dinosaur was discovered in 2004 by rancher in the United States within North Dakota. The fossil skeleton be real 70 percent complete and is build up as a complete animal with the omitted bones throw in resin from other specimens. It's the fourth nearly all complete skeleton of Triceratops so far found and is only the second approximately complete dinosaur skeleton to go for deal by public sale.

Source: newswiretoday.com

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Museum of Natural History carries out 'Fossil Guy' programs in April

Don Johnson, "The Fossil Guy," returns during April with educational agenda at 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon at the University Of Iowa Museum Of Natural History .
The progression and topics are as follows:

April 12: "Once Tyrannosaurs Roamed Montana ." Johnson will match up to and dissimilarity the different types of tyrannosaurs. A full sized facsimile of the "Peck's Rex" Tyrannosaurus rex skull will be in the show, and viewers will be gifted to touch real T. Rex Fossils as Johnson shares his knowledge searching for tyrannosaurus fossils in the western United States.

April 19: "Duck billed Dinosaurs - Good-looking Faces of the Cretaceous." Viewers can gain knowledge about Don's favorite group of dinosaurs "the duckbillsâ€ and see a little of the fossil bones of "Laura, the Juvenile Duck billed Dinosaur." He'll tell regarding the duckbills, as well as how they used apex on their heads, what barricade they had against predatory dinosaurs, and how they lift up their young.

April 26: "Raptor Dinosaurs: Feathered Killers" In this assembly, Viewers will gain knowledge about the latest inventions of fossil dinosaurs with feather imitation in China , as well as feathered raptor dinosaurs. Johnson will also discover the close connection between these dinosaurs along with modern birds. Fossils found by the raptor dinosaurs can be study to get an entire picture of the world where they lived over 65 million years before.

Source: media-newswire.com