What’s For Dinner
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Planned Jurassica dinosaur museum could bring in £20m
The BBC has reported on plans to build a underground dinosaur museum in the Jurassic coast. A charity behind a planned underground dinosaur museum on the Jurassic Coast believes the attraction would bring £20m into the local economy every year. The £80m attraction, called Jurassica, would be built in a 40m (132ft) deep limestone quarry…
DetailsKalagadi Manganese launches R7bn project in Northern Cape
BDLive reported that KALAGADI Manganese has officially launched its R7bn manganese mining and beneficiation project in the Northern Cape on Friday, with pledges that the mining venture would aim to serve as a model for ensuring that mineral wealth leads to economic development in poverty stricken areas. The launch of a mine complex, ore preparation…
DetailsBaby dinosaur delights school children
The Stuff website reported that two Auckland schools had a very surprising guest. Kristin School and Birkenhead Primary had a baby Tyrannosaurus Rex roaming around snapping its jaws at the pupils, amid screams of delight and horror. “I thought it was really scary and realistic,” Kristin School pupil Campbell Reelick said. “I kept moving back…
Details85 million-year-old ‘dinosaur’ fossile discovered in southern Israel
i24news has reported that fossilized skeletal remains of an ancient reptile dating back to 85 million years ago were discovered recently in the Arava desert in southern Israel, Israeli news site Ynet reported on Tuesday. Parts of skeletons of the same species were found in the past in Iran, Jordan, Syria and Morocco. Researchers from…
DetailsDinosAlive Top Dinosaur Movies
Jurassic World (2015) The megahit Jurassic World has torn the box office limb from limb in 2015. That’s no surprise, because the fourth in the seminal franchise has plenty going for it. Hollywood’s newest bankable star, Chris Pratt, cast in the role of a brooding hero? Check. Knowing, tongue-in-cheek nods to the first film? Check.…
DetailsThe horniest dinosaurs were the sexiest, scientists claim
The Washington Post reported that scientists analyzing dinosaur fossils believe they’ve figured out why some had cumbersome horns and frills: to attract mates. The data offer support for the theory “that these features were under selection as socio-sexual dominance signals,” concluded researchers from Queen Mary University of London, who published their findings this month in…
DetailsMini T. Rex: ‘Welsh Dragon’ May Be Earliest Jurassic Dinosaur
LiveScience reported that two brothers hunting for ichthyosaur fossils along the coast of the United Kingdom came across something far more astounding: The bones of what may be the earliest known dinosaur from the Jurassic period in the U.K., and possibly even the world, a new study finds. After finding the bones in 2014, Rob…
DetailsBig game: hunting for dinosaurs in Zimbabwe’s wilderness
Telegraph.co.uk reported that it is 4.30pm on a Thursday in September, and my party is getting crotchety. We have been travelling through the African wilderness since dawn. It is 35C outside but, because we are low on fuel, we have turned the air conditioning off, raising temperatures literally and metaphorically. It has not rained for…
DetailsDinosaur footprints reveal giant creatures once roamed Scotland
Telegraph.co.uk reported that dinosaur footprints from the biggest creatures ever to roam Britain have been discovered on the Isle of Skye. Although they look like rock pools, the hundreds of indentations are actually the remnants of paths walked by huge plant-eating sauropods around 170 million years ago. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh identified the…
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