Re: Turkey-sized Raptors Found * Sleeping With Dinosaurs * Jurassic Pot Plants * Oldest Biological Molecules Found In Iguanodon * DINOSAURNEWS

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

> **  Jurassic pot plants on sale soon
> The Wollemi Pine, a plant from Jurassic times which survived in a single
> isolated Australian grove, is set for an amazing comeback

I would just like to clarify something for non-Australasian readers... In 
Australia and NZ, "pot plants" refers to ornamental plants that grow in a 
pot (i.e., "potted plants" in American usage).  Lest non-Australasian 
readers believe that Aussie botanists are up to something nefarious in 
Wollemi.

(I've learned this distinction the hard way: As an Aussie living in the 
States, I've received some bewildered responses from the locals when I've 
mentioned that I have pot plants sitting on my window sill.  Divided by a 
common language, as they say....That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.)

> **  Outback hunt for turkey-sized raptors
> A remote sheep station in outback Queensland, Australia, is providing
> evidence of small, turkey-sized dinosaurs that lived 100 million years ago

I believe this material is that of a (coelurosaurian?) theropod, and comes 
from the same locality near Winton that yielded the undescribed sauropod 
nicknamed "Elliot".



Tim

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