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The discovery of a gruesome feeding frenzy that played out 73 million years ago in north-western Alberta may also lead to the discovery of new dinosaur species in north-western Alberta.
University of Alberta student Tetsuto Miya****a and Frederico Fanti, a palaeontology graduate student from Italy, made the discovery near Grande Prairie, 450 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.
Miya****a and Fanti came across a nesting site and found the remains of baby, plant-eating dinosaurs and the teeth of a predator. The researchers matched the teeth to a Troodon, a raptor-like dinosaur about two metres in length. This finding has opened new doors in dinosaur research on this part of the continent

"It established that dinosaurs were nesting at this high latitude. It also shows for the first time a significant number of Troodons in the area hunted hatchling dinosaurs" - Tetsuto Miya****a.

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New research suggests that some meat-eating dinosaurs were super dads and possibly polygamists.
A Montana State University study published in the Dec. 19 issue of Science says that males from three types of dinosaurs were sole care givers for their mate's eggs. They may even have had multiple mates and watched all their eggs at once.
The dinosaurs in the study were close ancestors of birds, and their fossils were found on top of unusually large clutches, said David Varricchio, an MSU palaeontologist and lead author of the paper. It's possible, he said, that the males mated with several females who laid their eggs in one large clutch. When the females left, the males incubated and protected the eggs on their own.

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New Argentine Dinosaur Had Bird-like Breathing System
The remains of a new 10-meter-long predatory dinosaur discovered along the banks of Argentinas Rio Colorado is helping to unravel how birds evolved their unusual breathing system.
Palaeontologists led by the University of Chicagos Paul Sereno, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, will publish their discovery Sept. 29 in the online journal Public Library of Science ONE. Joining Sereno to announce the discovery at a news conference in Mendoza, Argentina, today were Ricardo Martinez and Oscar Alcober, both of the Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina.

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A Malta palaeontologist who helped discover one of the world's best preserved dinosaurs has been charged with stealing a turkey-sized raptor fossil from land in the Malta area.

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