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Richard W. Travsky | 1 Mar 2006 03:32
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Re: T. rex's Restaurant

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 mkirkaldy <at> aol.com wrote:
> See:  http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/business/13977301.htm
>
> Tue, Feb. 28, 2006
> Firm takes bite of T-Rex
> Deal means dinosaur eatery can open at Disney World
> BY SCOTT CARLSON Pioneer Press
> Dinosaurs are extinct. But Golden Valley businessman Steven Schussler is 
> finding there's still plenty of life in the name Tyrannosaurus Rex.
> Houston-based Landry's Restaurants Inc. said Monday it has bought an 80 
> percent stake in two restaurant concepts developed by Schussler's firm, 
> including "T-Rex: A Prehistoric Family Adventure.''
> <SNIP>
> < The deal enables Schussler Creative Inc. to build a T-Rex restaurant at 
> Disney World in Orlando, Fla., with an expected opening in 2008. T-Rex will 
> feature food and fossils against the backdrop of simulated prehistoric 
> dinosaurs, steam, fire and ice. Customers visiting T-Rex will be greeted by 
> life-size animatronic dinosaurs placed among cascading waterfalls, bubbling 
> geysers and a fossil dig site.>
> <SNIP>
> _____
>
> Features a raw bar, and you can butcher your own entrees, drive other diners 
> away from their meals, or rummage through the dumpsters.

No live option where you can hunt and kill your own?
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Phil Bigelow | 1 Mar 2006 05:01
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Re: T. rex's Restaurant


On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:32:24 -0700 (MST) "Richard W. Travsky"
<rtravsky <at> uwyo.edu> writes:

> > Features a raw bar, and you can butcher your own entrees, drive 
> other diners 
> > away from their meals, or rummage through the dumpsters.

> No live option where you can hunt and kill your own?

Yes.  Its called "Dining ala Dick Cheney".

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Joe Cooper | 1 Mar 2006 05:45
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Re: T. rex's Restaurant


> [Original Message]
> From: Phil Bigelow <bigelowp <at> juno.com>
> To: <dinosaur <at> usc.edu>
> Date: 2/28/2006 8:04:20 PM
> Subject: Re: T. rex's Restaurant
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>
>
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:32:24 -0700 (MST) "Richard W. Travsky"
> <rtravsky <at> uwyo.edu> writes:
>
> > > Features a raw bar, and you can butcher your own entrees, drive 
> > other diners 
> > > away from their meals, or rummage through the dumpsters.
>
>
> > No live option where you can hunt and kill your own?
>
>
>
> Yes.  Its called "Dining ala Dick Cheney".
>
> <pb>
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>
Cheney's quails are released from cages for him to shoot.

Still cant get the right target
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Neal Romanek | 1 Mar 2006 07:23
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Re: Giant Squid Story

My wife and I did the tour of the museum's Darwin Center on our  
honeymoon visit to London in December 2004. It's a must if you visit  
the museum. When we were there they were preparing and treating the  
squid behind mysterious plastic curtains. We did get to see its  
future, permanent steel tank home, which was huge - like a giant  
robot's coffin. They said that they expected the squid to be on  
display in 2005.

On Feb 28, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Danvarner <at> aol.com wrote:

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4756514.stm
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Mickey Rowe | 1 Mar 2006 09:01
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Dinosaur List Administrative Message

This file was last touched (I changed the next two paragraphs) December 8, 2005

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Roberto Takata | 1 Mar 2006 12:11
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Re: A Jurassic 'beaver'

Has anybody had ever found a fossil of a group not supposed to be
covered by a hairy structure - says, dolphin, marine reptile and
others - with such subdermal web of collagen impression sticking out
of the body?

[]s,

Roberto Takata

2006/2/24, dinoboygraphics <at> aol.com <dinoboygraphics <at> aol.com>:
> Hey look, it was covered in a thick sub-dermal web of collagen...
>
> Scott Hartman
> Science Director
> Wyoming Dinosaur Center
> 110 Carter Ranch Rd.
> Thermopolis, WY 82443
> (800) 455-3466 ext. 230
> Cell: (307) 921-8333
>
> www.skeletaldrawing.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: T. Michael Keesey <keesey <at> gmail.com>
> To: Dinosaur mailing list <dinosaur <at> usc.edu>; vrtpaleo <at> usc.edu
> Sent: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:49:14 -0800
> Subject: Re: A Jurassic 'beaver'
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> On 2/23/06, Jeff Hecht <jeff <at> jeffhecht.com> wrote:
> >
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Christopher Taylor | 1 Mar 2006 13:51
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New article in Ichnos - Dinovulsion!

This just in today:

Jones, L. S., & E. R. Gustason. 2006. Dinosaurs as Possible Avulsion
Enablers in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, East-Central Utah.
Ichnos 13 (1): 31-41.

“The Upper Jurassic Salt Wash Member of the Morrison Formation in
east-central Utah contains low sinuosity, ribbon-shaped fluvial channel
sandstones enclosed by variegated mudstones. Channel sandstones formed
when avulsion (the relatively abrupt shift of a river to a new channel)
relocated a channel, after which extensive in-channel and minor
near-channel sand deposition occurred. Interpretation of
sedimentological, paleontological, and paleoclimatic data, and
comparison with a possible modern analog, suggest that some channel
avulsions and the subsequent deposition of ribbon sandstones may have
occurred when large Jurassic dinosaurs, such as sauropods, partially or
completely blocked active channels at death, thereby forcing discharge
out of channels and into overbank areas. This process is termed
“dinovulsion.”
Dinosaurs also may have trampled deep pathways into the damp, soft
floodplain substrate, creating channel-like conduits that focused
overbank flow during flooding. In places where overbank flow
concentrated in these deep, channel-shaped trails, a new channel course
was scoured, and an avulsion was completed. As time passed and the
system aggraded, these processes may have recurred and contributed to
the preserved architecture of isolated, low-sinuosity sandstone
ribbons.”

    ‘Dinovulsion’ definitely stands a high chance of being declared
‘Completely Unnecessary Neologism of the Day’...
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David Marjanovic | 1 Mar 2006 13:55
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Re: New article in Ichnos - Dinovulsion!

>    ‘Dinovulsion’ definitely stands a high chance of being declared
> ‘Completely Unnecessary Neologism of the Day’...

I don't think so. Dinoturbation has seen great success. I keep finding 
"heavily dinoturbated surfaces" in the literature.
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dinoboygraphics | 1 Mar 2006 17:01
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Re: A Jurassic 'beaver'

In Japan (two summers ago) I had the pleasure of examining a large 
number of Yixian fossils first hand before they were put on display 
fora  temporary exhibit.  None of the aquatic sphenodonts, nor the 
non-theropod dinosaurs, nor the fish, or any of the arthropods had any 
fur-like or feather-like impressions.  Only mammals and some dinosaurs 
(including basal birds).

Scott Hartman
Science Director
Wyoming Dinosaur Center
110 Carter Ranch Rd.
Thermopolis, WY 82443
(800) 455-3466 ext. 230
Cell: (307) 921-8333

www.skeletaldrawing.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Roberto Takata <rmtakata <at> gmail.com>
To: dinosaur <at> usc.edu
Sent: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 08:11:06 -0300
Subject: Re: A Jurassic 'beaver'

Has anybody had ever found a fossil of a group not supposed to be
covered by a hairy structure - says, dolphin, marine reptile and
others - with such subdermal web of collagen impression sticking out
of the body?

[]s,
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David Marjanovic | 1 Mar 2006 17:09
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Re: A Jurassic 'beaver'

> the aquatic sphenodonts

Not that it matters here, but several years ago *Monjurosuchus* (of which a 
specimen with scales is published in JVP) turned out to be a champsosaur 
instead.
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