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Spider Fossils subject to X-Ray releaseIt has been reported that a scientist, one David Penney from the university of Manchester has produced an incredible achievment. David has used X-Ray scanning in the African jungle to release a 50-million-year-old spider from an amber encasement. The spider does remain inside the amber, but with use of this technology a detailed image has been created......'Giant dino' found in ArgentinaA possible new species of giant plant-eating dinosaur have been discovered in Argentina. The new dinosaur name, proposed as, Futalognkosaurus dukei, once roamed the Earth some 80 million years ago. The dinosaur is estimated to measure at least
32m in length, making it one of the biggest dinosaurs ever found according to the Argentinians and Brazillians palaeontologists who studied it.
The skeleton found in Patagonia appears to represent a previously unknown species because of the un.....UK Fossils and Deposits MagazineUK Fossils is now directly linked to the 'Deposits Magazine', which is receiving some excellent feed back for the quality of its articles published. Any UK Fossils member who wishes to submit an article to the magazine are encouraged to email them to us and we can not promise that all will be published, but we are doing our very best to use all that we are able to so use......Fossils Discussion Board ExpandsThe UK Fossils discussion board so popular with thousands logging on each week can announce an agreement with Discovering Fossils that will allow a direct link to this board from both www.ukfossils.co.uk and www.discoveringfossils.co.uk there is a strict code of conduct for those users of the board. Any abuse will result in suspension, the board now being monitored by both web owners......
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