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Wednesday, 23 December 1998, Portugal
New
Portuguese Sauropod Named![Lourinhasaurus Bones in RED [22kb]](dinos/LourinhasaurusBones.gif)
Friday,
19 November 1998, Los Angeles, California, USA & Mexico
Too
bad they didn't duck!
First evidence of actual Dino Killing
"asteroid" found!
Some scientists think it might have been a comet and others an asteroid. Whatever it was, it put lots and lots of iridium into the atmosphere. This is what may have contributed to the death of all the big dinosaurs.
"The fossil meteorite strongly supports the idea that the impactor was an asteroid and not a comet," Kyte said. "There is a strong probability that this is a bullet from a smoking gun."
"That was one of the worst days the Earth had in the last billion years, and it is important to understand what happened."
Dr. Kyte's paper is on the cover of Nature Magazine this month!
Resources.
Tuesday,
17 November 1998, Neuquen, Patagonia, Argentina
Hard to Scramble These Eggs!
Fossilized Dinosaur eggs complete with
embryos and skin imprints!
These are probably Titanosaur eggs which means that they are approximately 70-90 million years old.
An article about this amazing discovery
will appear 19 November 1998 in the journal NATURE. 
(www.nature.com)
It is written by Luis Chiappe and Lowell Dingus of the American
Museum of Natural History in New York.
More photos like the one at the beginning
of this article are available at the Infoquest Foundation Website.
Infoquest sponsors this and many other dinosaur expeditions.
Infoquest
Foundation (sponsored the expedition) Lots of Pictures! 
National
Geographic, December, 1998 has an article about the eggs.
Article from Melbourne Australia Shows an Artist's Impression of the Embryo
Skeptical
Allosaurus? Dinosaurs on the cover of Skeptical Inquirer
Resources.
C.S.I.C.O.P (Committee for the Scientific
Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal) website.
Sucre, Kila Kila, Bolivia, 19 October 1998
Dinosaur Footprint
Mystery SOLVED!
Dear D.I.G,
I have seen your message
on Bolivian dinosaur on your Front Page.
First of all: The discovery
of dinotracks in and around Sucre are not a mystery..
David Keremba is an amateur
who has been working with us this summer in Sucre
The so called mystery
are the
first unequivocal ankylosaur tracks known today.
Anyway in order to get
the right news here is an update on our research project in Bolivia.
Below you will
find the latest news; some photographs are on my website
(address below), the
info on this page is outdated, thats the reason why I send you the version
below
Maybe you can post this
on your website, because it is more accurate.
Press release Cal Orcko, Sucre,
Depto. Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Members of the expedition
Chief
: Dr. Christian Meyer, Assoc. Prof. Dep. of Paleontology, Earth Sciences,
University of Basel, Switzerland.
Prof. Martin Lockley,
University of Colorado at Denver, USA
Dr.
Giuseppe Leonardi, Pozzuoli, Italy
Dr.
Lionel Cavin, Musée des Dinosaures, Esperaza, France
Dr. Kaspar Graf,
Geotest, Bern, Switzerland
Joelle Salomon, Lausanne,
Switzerland
Dorothee Hippler
Dep. of Paleontology, Earth Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland.
Antoinette Lüdin,
Dep. of technical Geology, Earth Sciences University of Basel, Switzerland.
Stephan Bucher, Dep.
of Geology, Earth Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland.
Julia
Meyer, Lund, Sweden
Roland Blaser, Swiss
National TV, Zurich, Switzerland
Vicki Spencer, University
of Colorado at Denver, USA
Anne Schulp, Museum of Natural History, Maastricht, Netherlands
Federico Anaya, Museum of Natural History, La Paz, Bolivia
David Keremba, Juan Carlos
Daza, Gabriela Jerez, Enzo Ugarte, SOCIUPA, Sucre, Bolivia
Sponsors:
Swiss National Science Foundation,
Mammut AG, Switzerland
FANCESA, Sucre, Bolivia
Leica, Switzerland
Petzl, Switzerland
Tramp Store, Switzerland
Drawin,
Munich, Germany
The Cal Orcko dinosaur tracksite is situated 5 km west of Sucre. The trackbearing surface is in a active cement quarry of the Fabrica Nacional de Cementos (FANCESA). It consists of a limestone wall with a shear size of 25'000 square meters literally covered by dinosaur tracks. Up to now it is the largest dinosaur tracksite known on the planet.
A scientific team lead by Swiss paleontologist Christian Meyer from the Earth Science departement of the University of Basel has investigated the site during July and August 1998.
The limestone wall, where
the dinosaur tracks have been observed is steeply inclined (70o) and could
only be mapped with heavy climbing equipment. The tracklevel dates
from the Late Cretaceous and forms part of the El Molino Formation,
the estimated age is about 68 million years. More than 250 trackways
have been registered. Six different types of dinosaurs have been present.
The most spectacular trackways are those of quadrupedal titanosaurs,
herbivore animals with a size between 15 and 25m.
[These are the actual Titanosaurid footprints in Bolivia. Those guys look
like the walked right up a wall, but of course, the ground moved.]
Footprints of bipedal
carnivorous dinosaurs
are very common. They were made by animals
of different size classes
ranging from 1.2m up to 6m in height. Some of those trackways show that
the animals were limping; others indicate a speed of more than 30 km
per hour. (That's about 18 miles per hour - Vera)
One
trackway of a theropod dinosaur can be followed for more than 350 m
and presents the longest ever recorded in the world.
Trackways of ornithopod dinosaurs are less common but nevertheless demonstrate the presence of small to intermediate size animals that reached a height of about 4m. The scientifically most important tracks are those of ankylosaurs; four-legged animals with a heavy dermal armour. Some indicate a regular walking gait, others show that the animals were running with a speed of more than 11 km/h. (That's about 8 miles per hour - Vera) This is the first record of those animals on the South American continent and the most important record worldwide.
The quarry shows seven different levels with tracks. The main level is a siliceous limestone that has been deposited in a freshwater lake; this is also demonstrated by remains of fossil catfish, turtles, crocodiles and freshwater snails. The dinosaurs were most likely visiting the lakeshore for water and food, such as algae or fish.
copyright Ch.Meyer, Sucre august 1998
RESOURCES
Sucre, Kila Kila, Bolivia, 7 October 1998
Mystery Dinosaur Found ?
Yep! They've been keep secrets again. In 1995, paleontologists headed by David Keremba, president of the Paleontology Society of the San Francisco Xavier University, and Swiss paleontologist Christian Meyer found footprints and fossils of many dinosaurs. Some of them may come from a totally unknown dinosaur!
Those scientists! They always want to be sure before they tell anyone. Anyway, "The largest unknown prints are square in shape and belong to a very large quadruped of up to 66 feet (20 meters) long with a pelvis of at least three feet (one meter) wide," Dr. Keremba said in a Reuters interview.
"After a lot of consultations with foreign experts, we think we are facing an unknown dinosaur, a new species which has only been found here in Kila Kila," Keramba said.
The footprints are "fossilized" from the originals which dinosaurs or some other animal left in mud over 65 million years ago. The animal is apparently a quadruped (That means they have four legs and feet. One foot for each leg. Vera Velociprator.)
Christian Meyer thinks that
there may be more dino footprints in Bolivia than anywhere
in the world! He has found over 3,000 of them. I guess he's never
walked around in the mud in New York's Central Park after it rains. Talk
about footprints!
CNN / Reuters Story
Lourinhã, Portugal, 11 June
(Taxonomy has to do with families of dinosaurs... Vera)
This summer all volunteers
are welcome to help in the excavations and in the lab on the several new
discoveries in Lourinhã. So if you live in Portugal hurry on
over!
Source: Octavio Mateus
Roanoak, Virginia, April 1, 1998, Winston-Salem University
Paleontologists Dr. R. Reynolds, Dr. M. Arlboro, and Joseph C. Amel, PhD have announced a new paper to be published about fossilized juices found in the K-T boundary neary Roanoak, Virginia.
The juices, found in small
patty like concretions, resemble those of
modern tobacco plants.
Nearby are the perforated jugals of several
large saurian species.
"We've long wondered what
caused the strange little holes in the jugals
(jaws) of many large dinosaurs,
and now we have evidence!" Dr. Amel said
on behalf of the team. "Apparently,
certain juvenile members of the
clade Tyrranasauridaechewed
on ancient plants and held the soggy
remains in their
mouths for extended periods of time before they finally
spat them out. This
would account for bone degeneration and the tiny
holes!"
Like coprolites (dino scat),
these fossilized juice patties are found in
great numbers in this area
along with so many degenerated bones that the
evidence is incontrovertible.
Apparently dinosaurs gathered together in
large groups to engage in
this specialized form of plant mastication.
"If we find these juice patties
on other continents, it will prove
beyond a doubt that this
strange food ingestion or abuse was a leading
cause of dinosaur extinction
on the K-T boundary!" Dr. Arlboro
exclaimed
This evidence has been available
for a long time, but was supressed by
the corporations which owned
much of the land which held the "juice
patties." Excavation was
carried out at night using flashlights. The
remains were so prolific,
however, that hardly any time was needed to
dig up thousands of samples.
The landowners, however, would not give
permission for paleontologists
to examine the "patties" until recently.
"Why would anyone conceal
such important evidence?" Dr. Reynolds
wondered. "Go figure."
Monday, 12 January 1998, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
There have been "Pigs in Space," so why not dinosaurs? This time, however, it is not Muppets! It is a real dinosaur fossil!
Do you remember Jay Apt? No? Well, he used to be an astronaut, but now he is the director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History which has a totally kewl collection of dinosaurs!
Jay decided that it was about time that a Coelophysis fossil got to see something more exciting than the inside of a display case. After all, the 8 inch fossil head had been buried for 214 million years or so, and we all need a little air!
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) agreed to put the fossil on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis which will carry it into space on January 22, 1998.
It will be the first known dinosaur in space!
People often ask us: "Why do you call your publication The Dinosaur Intergalactic Gazette? There are no dinosaurs in space." We used to answer them, "How do YOU know there are no dinosaurs? Have you ever gone to Neptune and checked it out?"
But now we can say that we know for sure! Heh! Heh! Another first for D.I.G.
RESOURCESABF
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9801/11/dinosaur.in.space.ap/
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