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Friday, March 19, 2010
China exposes Thousands of Dinosaur Footprints
More than 3,000 Dinosaur Footprints, all facing the same way, have been found out by researchers after a three-month excavation in the eastern Shandong province of China. Possibly representing a migration or panicked stampede, both the quantity and size of the prints distinguish this wonderful discovery.
Estimated to be more than 100 million years aged and dating back to the mid Cretaceous period, Dinosaur remains have been discovered more than thirty sites in the Zhucheng area. Therefore, the moniker, “dinosaur city.”
The prints range in size from 4 to 32 inches long and are thought to belong to at least six different dinosaur kinds including: Tyrannosaurs, Coelurosaurs and Hadrosaurs.
The area is said to be the world’s major grouping of fossilized dinosaur bones. Since 1964, there have been two major digs in this region and experts consider the large numbers of dinosaurs found could give vital clues about their extinction so many millions of years before.
It is possible that even more Dinosaur footprints may be uncovered as the excavation continues. At this time, plans are being made to set up a Dinosaur Fossil park in the area.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
UAF scientist offers analysis on asteroid and death of dinosaurs
A six-mile-wide asteroid is supposed to have crashed into what is now Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years before, triggering a blast that spread death and destruction around the globe.
UAF scientist Michael Whalen is part of a research team that presented a new analysis to support the theory that an asteroid wiped out the Dinosaurs.
Scientists first proposed the asteroid impact theory of dinosaur mass extinction 30 years before. The discovery of a massive crater at Chicxulub [CHICK-shuh-loob], in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula in 1991, supported that hypothesis.
The Chicxulub crater is more than 120 miles wide - about the distance from Fairbanks to the Arctic Circle - and scientists consider it was created when an asteroid more than six miles wide crashed into Earth 65 million years ago. The cataclysmic impact - a million times more powerful than the biggest nuclear bomb ever tested - triggered massive earthquakes, atmospheric discharge and oceanic upheaval. The ensuing mass Extinction ended both the reign of the dinosaurs and the Cretaceous period, which provide way to the Paleogene period. This theory, having progressively accumulated evidence, was thought to be a near-consensus view.
Some scientists declare that long-term volcanic activity at the Deccan Traps, in what is now India, caused acid rain and global cooling, gradually making life untenable for the dinosaurs and other large animals. They also propose that the Chicxulub impact occurred some 300,000 years before the mass extinctions.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Colorful Dinosaur found out in China
Many scientists have long idea that Dinosaurs were brown or gray in color. But scientists examining the remains of a dinosaur say they have discover evidence it had brightl -colored feathers.
American and Chinese researchers rebuilt the feathers of a flightless dinosaur named Anchiornis huxleyi. The small, two-legged creature lived about one hundred-fifty million year before. It would have weighed only about 110 grams.
The researchers utilized an electron microscope and fossilized remains of thirty feathers that once covered the animal. The remains were found out in Liaoning Province in China.
Researchers learned melanosomes in the feathers. These small, color-producing structures created as the dinosaur was developing. The researchers compared the structures to the melanosomes that manage the color of feathers on modern birds. They were then able to recognize the colors of the Dinosaur feathers.
The researchers state that Anchiornis huxleyi appeared to have a dark gray or black body. They found that the pinnacle of the ancient creature was light brown in color. It had bright white wings. Each of the feathers had black on the last part.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Dinosaur bone watch declared by Louis Moinet
One of the strangest watches in the world is being presented by Louis Moinet, using real Dinosaur Bones in its mechanics.
Most people anticipate to see dinosaur bones in national museums across the globe, yet one pioneering watch firm is allowing history fans to observe them every time they glance at their wrist.
Louis Moinet has announced its Jurassic Tourbillon, which contains fragments of Dinosaur bones in the dial which are dated at 130 million years old and forms part of a new series of novelty timepieces quite exactly named Time Explorator.
The hand-wound mechanical watch also has an impressive 18 carat white gold case and also comes with a bezel and horns that employ no fewer than 56 Wesselton VVS baguette diamonds.
On top of this, the watch also has three dials, while it uses an anti-reflective sapphire crystal front to ensure that reading it is simple in any situation.
Earlier this week, Happy Hour Watches - a wholly cheaper alternative to the dinosaur watch - revealed that its timepieces let buyers to tell the time and, should they want to, open a bottle of beer at the same time with a fancy clasp.
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Monday, March 15, 2010
Famous dinosaur fossil hunters
Movies like Jurassic Park make our fascination with dinosaurs seem risky and exciting. Dinosaur hunting can be both hazardous and exciting, but not in the way that the movies portray.
Dinosaur hunting is intellectually exciting, but things do not normally occur as quickly or as flashily as in the movies. Much of it is more tedious, sweaty job. Long trips to isolated places, shovels and picks. Viewing at pieces of rocks and bones, comparing bits of evidence.
There have been lots of people over the years interested in the past. Some have been interested in the distant past of prehistoric times. Bones have been found out for thousands of years. It was not until the 19th century, though, that some of those bones became known belonging to a different sort of animal. Large. Reptilian. Dinosaur!
The premature study of what became known as dinosaurs began in Europe, with many of the leaders in the field being British.
One of the premature dinosaur hunters was Gideon Mantell (1790-1852), who was a doctor from East Sussex, England. In 1822 he explained a tooth that his wife is said to have found along the road while traveling in West Sussex. The story of Gideon Mantell is accessible on a National Geographic DVD titled The Dinosaur Hunters.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Dinosaurs strike roof at the Mount
To sight Dinosaur Footprints, all you have to do is look up.
And now a staircase and viewing platform has been constructed at the Fireclay Caverns in Mount Morgan, tourists can get an even better view of the best examples of early Jurassic Dinosaur footprints in existence.
As an integral part of the Mount Morgan Town and Mine tour, run by TMC Tours, the Fireclay Caverns have fascinated locals and visitors similar for years.
But given the height of the ceiling, the infrastructure improvement was required.
Mount Morgan Promotion and Development (MMPAD) president, Mr. John Steinberger said the new platform would complement the fantastic Dinosaur Fossil display at the Mount Morgan Mine Administration building and present a richer, more immersive experience for all.
"The younger ones who are all dinosaur mad are going to like this," Mr. Steinberger said.
Created by Mount Morgan Miners in the late 1800s as they excavated a rich clay deposit for firebricks to employ in the mines furnaces, the Fireclay Caverns are one of the largest man-made caverns in Australia.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Dinosaur DNA rebuilt from ancient eggs
Jurassic Park has just taken a giant T-Rex-sized step toward becoming reality after ancient DNA from long-extinct creatures was effectively extracted.
The DNA was taken from creatures such as the 10ft, half tonne elephant bird and effectively extracted from pieces of eggshell, trapped in Fossils for thousands of years.
The innovative technique `has major implications in the fields of archaeology, palaeontology, conservation and forensics', said Australian biologists. 'We got DNA signatures from a variety of fossil eggshells, including the extinct moa, elephant birds and a 19,000-year-old emu,' said Murdoch University's Charlotte Oskam.
The researchers utilized lasers to highlight DNA `hotspots' under a microscope, marking them with fluorescent green dye. 'We demonstrated that genetic material is preserved in the eggshell matrix and have successfully imaged the DNA via microscopy,' they said.
Their study, to be published this week, is the first to determine the way to tease out genetic strands from eggshells.
Bird eggs are resilient and act as a barrier to oxygen and water - the key reason of DNA damage.
Modern shells have antimicrobial chemicals and it is possible these remain active in fossil shells, also helping to protect the significant genetic code.
`Biomolecules preserved in fossil eggshell are a formerly untapped source of DNA,' said Ms Oskam.
`But even inserting particular genes into living species does not bring an extinct species back to life. And personally I believe it is unethical to recreate a species that is extinct,' she concluded.
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