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Independent Online

Meet the newest member of the Jurassic-era
Independent Online
Buenos Aires - Argentine experts have discovered the near-complete remains of a new species of Jurassic-era dinosaur that stood on its rear legs and had tiny arms, a leading paleontologist said on Thursday. The find belongs to the Abelisaurus family, ...

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Newsday

$85 million 'Jurassic park' assembled in Houston museum
Fox News
This Jurassic Mom's almost certainly painful death is perfectly preserved in a rare fossil skeleton, one of the many unique items that will go on display in the Houston Museum of Natural Science's $85 million dinosaur hall when it opens to the public ...
Houston museum unveils $85 million dinosaur hallPress Herald

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RedOrbit

Fossil Ink Sacs Yield Jurassic Pigment?A First
National Geographic
The ancient ink's similarity to modern squid ink suggests this defensive weapon hasn't evolved much since the Jurassic period (prehistoric time line). The brownish-black fossil pigment?a type of melanin called eumelanin?is widespread in the animal ...
Jurassic Squid Ink Very Similar To Modern Squid InkRedOrbit
Jurassic ink found in fossilized squidTG Daily
Jurassic Squid Ink Same as Modern Squid InkDiscovery News
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Houston Museum Unveils $85 Million Dinosaur Hall
ABC News
Jurassic Mom's almost certainly painful death is perfectly preserved in a rare fossil skeleton, one of the many unique items that will go on display in the Houston Museum of Natural Science's $85 million dinosaur hall when it opens to the public June 2 ...

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Proactive Investors UK

Gulf Keystone says drilling has begun on the Sheikh Adi-2 well
Proactive Investors UK
Some 1.45 kilometres north of the first well on the block it will be drilled to a depth of 2450 metres and will target the prospective intervals in the Jurassic formation. Sheikh Adi-1 was a much deeper exploration well and was drilled to 3800 metres ...
Gulf Keystone Petroleum spuds exploration well in KurdistanSmallCapNews.co.uk
Gulf Keystone Petroleum spuds new Kurdistan wellInteractive Investor

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Wired.co.uk

Modern Squid Ink Unchanged From Jurassic Times
Science 2.0
For context, 160 million years ago was smack in the middle of the Jurassic, when the land was covered with sauropods and the ocean was full of ichthyosaurs. What were cephalopods doing? Well, they were coiled-shell ammonites and straight-shelled ...
Cuttlefish Use Ancient Ink FormulaScientific American
Squid ink hasn't changed in the last 160 million yearsWired.co.uk

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Hands and feet celebrated as part of Jurassic Coast Earth Festival
Dorset Echo
THE use of hands and feet by Dorset workers along the Jurassic Coast will be celebrated this weekend. A Dorset button maker, a blacksmith and a herbalist as well as a sculptor and a coastguard have been collaborating with two artists as part of an ...



Zee News

New fossil reveals evolutionary history of Jurassic dinosaurs
Zee News
Washington: New fossil material found in Patagonia has shed light on the evolution of dinosaurs in the Jurassic age. When Tyrannosaurus and its relatives roamed North America and Asia, the abelisaurids occupied a similar niche in Patagonia and other ...
Poorly armed, but successfulScience Codex

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CBS News

Houston museum unveils $85 million dinosaur hall with Triceratops skin, T. rex ...
Washington Post
Jurassic Mom's almost certainly painful death is perfectly preserved in a rare fossil skeleton, one of the many unique items that will go on display in the Houston Museum of Natural Science's $85 million dinosaur hall when it opens to the public June 2 ...
Houston museum unveils $85 million dinosaur hallAtlanta Journal Constitution

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Press-Enterprise

HEMET: Fun in the mud at Jurassic Classic
Press-Enterprise
Participants in the second annual Jurassic Classic Mud Run seem undaunted by the muddy pits they had to pass through on the 5K course on Saturday, May 19, 2012, in Hemet. BY DIANE A. RHODES Some participants in last weekend's Jurassic Classic Mud Run ...