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Article: When dinosaurs dominated: ancient creatures arrive from China: A new exhibition "tells the story of how the planet changed while dinosaurs ruled the Earth--and how this affected the evolution of dinosaurs and other life.(The World Yesterday)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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"DINOSAUR DYNASTY: Discoveries from China" introduces North American dinosaur enthusiasts to the prehistoric creatures that ruled large tracts of Asia for 165,000,000 years. The exhibition features fossils and life-size cast reproductions from all three periods of the Mesozoic era: Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous. On display are dinosaur eggs and nests, as well as a variety of plants and animals that lived in the shadow of these giants. Visitors will meet Mamenchisaurus, a huge plant-eater with the longest neck of any animal in history; the unicorn-like duck-billed Tsintaosaurus; and a miniature ceratopsian called Psittacosaurus, or parrot lizard; Sinosauropteryx and ...
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... ... fossil specimens of dinosaurs and other animals ... articles are from Zigong Dinosaur Museum of Sichuan, China, the biggest in Asia. The fossils of the dinosaurs on display, which ... director of the Zigong Dinosaur Museum. At an opening ...
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