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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, February 25, 2010

Island of dwarf dinosaurs did exist

An island of "dwarf dinosaurs" which was only a theory for 100 years really did survive, scientists have announced.

The idea of the tiny prehistoric beasts on Hateg Island, Romania, was proposed 100 years before by the colourful Baron Franz Nopcsa, whose family owned estates in the area.

He discovers that many dinosaur remains on Hateg were half the size of their close relatives in older rocks in England, Germany, and North America.

The baron's theory has been checked for the first time by Professor Mike Benton at the University of Bristol, and six other authors from Romania, Germany, and the United States.

The team found that the Hateg Island dinosaurs were in fact dwarfs and not just young dinosaurs.
A favourite theme of evolutionary ecologists is whether there is an "island rule" - where gigantic animals isolated on islands evolve to become smaller.

Three species of the Hateg dinosaurs - the plant-eating sauropod Magyarosaurus and the plant-eating ornithopods Telmatosaurus and Zalmoxes - are half the length of their close relatives elsewhere.

The team examined these three dinosaurs, each of them represented by many specimens. They found no evidence of any large bones such as they would expect to locate in their normal-sized relatives.

More importantly, a close study of the bones proved that the Dinosaurs had reached adulthood so they were not just underdeveloped youngsters.

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Dinosaur exhibition is first display for Golisano Children’s Hospital Treehouse Gallery

Mesozoica: The Age of Dinosaurs is the former exhibition to
be featured in the Gallery of the Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital. The exhibition features laboratory cast specimens of significant Fossil Discoveries and various dinosaurs. It is on display through March 31 for the benefit of patients and family members and their visitors during their reside in the hospital. Gallery hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday.

Mesozoica: The Age of Dinosaurs is curated by the International Museum Institute of New York and was recently on display in the entrance hall of the Mulroy Civic Center.

“We’re enchanted to make our inaugural exhibit this exciting presentation of these prehistoric creatures and other important discoveries,” said Leola Rodgers, associate administrator for Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital.

Rodgers said that the gallery will host exhibitions throughout the year. Upcoming exhibitions may attribute artwork from area schools and colleges.

”We have a wonderful space that permits patients and their families to leave the clinical setting and enjoy a intriguing art exhibit or other kinds of displays.”

Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital, which opened in September 2009, features large private patient rooms, with a two-story treehouse enclosing a gallery, solarium, performance space and chapel.

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Friday, January 8, 2010

Korean dinosaur photo book hits shelves

A book of dinosaur fossils found out on the Korean Peninsula was published on Tuesday, a rare photo guide to the reptiles that left their last footprints on southern coasts 80 million years ago.

The publication by the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, a state-run preservation agency, tracks a series of landmark discoveries in the country last year, including the fossil of a horned dinosaur that scientists say is an unknown species, and footprints of a baby dinosaur that are the smallest of their kind found so far.

Paleontologists say dinosaurs existed in Korea from 120 million to 80 million years ago, throughout much of the Cretaceous period, the last stage of the Mesozoic era and the heyday for dinosaurs. Their fossils, relatively well-preserved and discovered in a richly diverse spectrum across the southern South Korean coasts, at present registered on a tentative list of the World Heritage site, en route to gaining major recognition.

"Many of them were only known in academia, and the major merit of this book is that it comes with photographs and effortless texts so that they can be known to ordinary people. Our idea was that people can use it as a guide when they go observe the footprints," said Lim Jong-deock, chief curator at the institute and one of the seven co-authors of the book, "Dinosaur Fossils of Korea." Lim stressed the book is the primary full collection of Korean dinosaur fossils designated as a natural heritage here. Its English edition is expected later on this year.

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Thursday, January 7, 2010

William May, dinosaur creator, dies

WILLIAM H. ''Billy'' May, the theatrical producer who produced the Walking with Dinosaurs arena show, died in St Vincent's Hospital on New Year's Eve, aged 56, due to complications from pneumonia.

A showman who trained at the New York High School of presenting Arts, May moved to Australia in 1972 at the age of 19 to be with his life partner, producer Malcolm Cooke. Together, the two men worked on more than 40 productions in London,Australia and New York, including the Arts Centre's 2002 production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a 1983 Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn - a Fable) and a 1997 West End musical, Always, about the love affair between Edward VII and Wallis Simpson.

May had his share of challenges as well as victories, says Cooke. Always was believed to be the pinnacle of May's theatrical career, but savage reviews closed the show.

They sold May's Skippy film script to Rupert Murdoch at 20th Century Fox, only to have the deal discarded by studio executive Barry Diller, aghast that his boss wanted to greenlight ''a kangaroo movie''.

May was inspired to create his enduringly profitable 2007 touring arena show Walking with Dinosaurs by watching the cranes working overnight to construct the Southern Cross Station.

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Monday, December 28, 2009

'Queen of the Dinosaurs' dies in Scotts Valley

When Peggy Thompson's husband Larry died in 1965, she was in her early 40s, raising 3 small children and running a Scotts Valley nursery school.

If that weren't enough of a burden to carry from day to day for a new widow, she also had a different role to play.

She was the Queen of the Dinosaurs.

Peggy Thompson, who died Dec. 14 at the age of 86 at her home in Scotts Valley, was the owner and operator of one of the more unusual businesses in the extensive history of Santa Cruz County. It was called Lost World, and it was a Scotts Valley tourist attraction that featured 25 to 30 enormous, realistic, life-sized models of various different Species of Dinosaurs, some of which could be seen by drivers — many of whom were definitely startled out-of-towners — on Highway 17.

The entrance to Lost World was on Scotts Valley Drive, and featured a huge animatronic tree that served as the park's entrance, close to a T-rex looking out over the turret of a castle. The park also featured what was formerly known as the Tree Circus, a grove of trees meticulously grafted into the kinds of whimsical shapes never found in nature. The Thompsons bought the Tree Circus from its creator, Axel Erlandson, renaming it the Enchanted Forest, keeping Erlandson as a hired caretaker.