The Hardy Scorpion

A scorpion lived for 15 months without food or water inside the plaster mold of a dinosaur fossil, breaking free only when a scientist broke open the mold.

Don DeBlieux, a paleontologist for the Utah Geological Survey, said he was sawing open the plaster mold when the scorpion wriggled from a crack in a sandstone block.

DeBlieux is still chipping away at the 1,000-pound rock to expose the horned skull of an 80-million-year-old plant eater — a species of dinosaur he says is new to science...........

Lubbock Online

Argentina: The Place for Dinosaurs

Jorge Calvo walks the dusty terrain slowly, eyes downcast, combing the red dirt of Argentina's desert for bones. He does not have to look far.

Calvo spots some gray chips. Bits of dinosaur fossils, the scientist says. Just yards away, massive vertebraes of what may be a new species remain partly excavated. Nearby, the rib of a smaller prehistoric beast protrudes from the rocks.

For now, Calvo leaves them. There are many more dinosaur remains in this part of west-central Argentina than his team can handle. Rarely a day passes that they do not find the teeth, bones or other remains of a dinosaur or other prehistoric animal or plant at Project Dino, their excavation site on the banks of Lake Barreales..........

Miami Herald