Australian Alps
Australian Alps chain of mountain ranges, SE Australia, making up the southern part of the Eastern Highlands and forming the watershed between the Murray River system and streams flowing into the Tasman Sea. It is the site of the Snowy Mts. hydroelectric project. Mt. Kosciusko (7,316 ft/2230 m) in the Australian Alps is the highest peak in Australia.
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South Ken's terrible lizard The colossal, 100-year-old replica of 'Diplodocus carnegii' is one of the wonders of London and still has much to tell us about dinosaurs, writes Karolyn Shindler
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 4/24/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...long, lizard-like tail. This was Diplodocus carnegii. The King was so impressed...exhausting seasons almost an entire Diplodocus skeleton. The chances of finding another...Andrew Carnegie formally presented Diplodocus carnegii to the Natural History Museum...
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Diplodocus.(Diplodocus: Gigantic Long-Necked Dinosaur)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: MBR Bookwatch; 1/1/2006; ; 425 words
; Diplodocus Michael W. Skrepnik Enslow Publishers PO Box 398, Berkeley Heights...0766026221, $21.26 www.enslow.com Kids in grades 1-3 will find DIPLODOCUS: GIGANTIC LONG-NECKED DINOSAUR a most welcome read: it uses large...
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Einstein vs. Diplodocus.(Editorial)
Magazine article from: Medical Laboratory Observer; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...I took action. I signed up for an in-house class in Excel, and then scrounged up a copy of the voicemail handbook. I also stopped using Einstein as an excuse, but mostly, I refused to be a Diplodocus. cbersch@nelsonpub.com
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Letter: The diplodocus in the room
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 9/17/2006; ; 287 words
; ...life on earth and subsequently themselves. Why is it that all debates regarding our resources take place as if there were no diplodocus in the room? In the long term, population must be reduced' it is an issue that we ignore at our peril. Pip Sutcliffe CHIPPENHAM...
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Books: A diplodocus-sized turkey David Mamet's strange new novel flew so far over William Sutcliffe's head he didn't even hear it pass
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/13/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...an appeal for their approval, not a genuine attack on their values. Perhaps to divert attention from this extraordinary diplodocus- sized turkey of a novel, Faber have chosen to publish a new collection of essays by Mamet on the same day. The curiously...
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I Like Dinosaurs!/Diplodocus: Gigantic Long-Necked Dinosaur/Sinosauropteryx: Mysterious Feathered Dinosaur/Triceratops: Mighty Three-Horned Dinosaur/Tyrannosaurus rex: Fierce King of the Dinosaurs
Magazine article from: Natural History; 5/1/2005; ; 409 words
; ...Dinosaurs! by Michael W. Skrepnick, a series for children ages six through eight (Enslow Publishers, Inc., $21.26 each) Diplodocus: Gigantic Long-Necked Dinosaur (2005) Sinosauropteryx: Mysterious Feathered Dinosaur (to appear in June 2005) Triceratops...
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GET READY FOR DINO-MANIA.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 10/4/1999; 700+ words
; ...stared in awe at the skeleton of the Diplodocus at the Natural History Museum in London...Imagine the thrill when a herd of Diplodocus, king of all plant-eating dinosaurs...never shared the planet. But when the Diplodocus stalked the earth millions of years...
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We're not how you saurus; Science gives prehistoric monsters a nose job.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 8/3/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...that long-necked monsters such as the diplodocus and brontosaurus spent much of their...gives a better understanding of how diplodocus, which had a 25ft neck and 45ft tail...the nostrils were on top of the head, diplodocus's complicated nasal system could not...
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Carnegie exhibit features 'colossal' dino-skeletons
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; 6/5/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...that animal's bones back together. Diplodocus carnegii is back in Pittsburgh. "This...exhibit, scheduled to open in November. Diplodocus and 18 other complete dinosaur skeletons...giant pelvis. The dinosaur was named Diplodocus carnegii and shipped back to Pittsburgh...
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DISCOVERIES CHANGE OUTLOOK ON DINOSAURS.(Living)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 7/3/1990; 700+ words
; ...fossilized skeleton of a long-necked Diplodocus that will be on its tiptoes and have...fearsome. The bones of a 60-foot-long Diplodocus that was wandering around what's now...down." So this will become the first Diplodocus (or any large plant- eating dinosaur...
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Diplodocus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Diplodocus [Gr., = double...sperm whales, leading to theories that Diplodocus possessed an elephantlike trunk or that...fluids. A huge saurischian sauropods, Diplodocus could reach a length of nearly 90 ft...
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diplodocus
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
di·plod·o·cus / diˈplädəkəs / • n. a huge, herbivorous dinosaur (genus Diplodocus ) of the late Jurassic period, with a long, slender neck and tail.
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Sauropoda
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
...of herbivorous habit. They included Diplodocus , from the Upper Jurassic, one skeleton...measuring 26.6 m, at one time made Diplodocus the longest terrestrial animal known...sauropod, and although shorter than Diplodocus its skeleton was more massively built...
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Jurassic
Book article from: Animal Sciences
...also developed during the Jurassic. The sauropods include Apatosaurus (formerly called Brontosaurus), Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, Seismosaurus, and Suprasaurus. These animals were quadrupeds, with pillarlike legs (like the legs of an elephant) that...
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dinosaur
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology
...Tyrannosaurus (the largest known carnivore), and some quadrupedal herbivorous forms, such as Apatosaurus ( Brontosaurus ) and Diplodocus . They all had lizard-like pelvic girdles. Many of the herbivorous dinosaurs were amphibious or semiaquatic.
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