So far, no evidence had emerged proving that Prokopi had spent time in Mongolia digging for the T. bataar or other dinosaurs, although his eBay account featured more than a hundred items from the country, and he had sold higher-end Gobi pieces at auction.
Eric Prokopi, 38, said he would surrender the 70 million-year-old Tarbosaurus bataar skeleton, known as "Ty, " and give up any claims to six other dinosaurs and various other bones in a cooperation deal that might win him leniency from charges that carry a potential prison sentence of up to 17 years.
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Not surprisingly, many ETF supporters think Putnam and some other firms are dinosaurs.
They join a number of other striking feathered dinosaurs found in ancient lake deposits in China and Germany, for which the presence of feathers is inferred by subtle markings on the fossil bones and wispy markings in the surrounding fossilised sediment.
Casey recounted that as a lad, he originally wanted to learn about paleontology, or the study of dinosaurs and other prehistoric life.
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They are faced with increasingly difficult physical circumstances: the food web is thinning out, many animals and plants have gone missing, their main food source a type of primitive grass is threatened, and they have to be on the lookout constantly for hostile animals, other less-evolved dinosaurs with more violent survival strategies.
The dinosaurs, in other words, could flourish only when the competition had been knocked out.
Among the desk decorations, the occasional conventional baby photo seems almost ridiculously un-ironic, amid other personal props like a horde of model dinosaurs riding motorcycles, cuddly toy gremlins with shocking pink fur and knobbly yellow stress balls.
Print publications are dinosaurs, done in by the Internet and other newfangled technology, right?
Other than the fact that most kids are fascinated by dinosaurs, depicting the dilemmas facing this intelligent tribe gave me a way to talk about issues confronting humanity without pointing directly at us.
So on one side we have the rental store dinosaurs and their insidious late fees, and on the other we have Netflix charging more money to rent DVDs by mail.
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Other upcoming Pixar films include The Good Dinosaur, about a world in which the dinosaurs never went extinct, which is scheduled for 2014, and two untitled films.
However, in recent years, there has been some serious question over whether that asteroid impact really did wipe out the dinosaurs (except for the ones that evolved into birds) or whether there were other causes entirely.
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