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Good news for paleontologists and other dinosaur enthusiasts. Auction house Christies has announced it will auction a 65 million year old Triceratops skeleton. The auction will be held on April 16th in Paris. Experts predict the skeleton will change hands for over 500.000 euros.

The Triceratops skeleton weighs over 2 tons and is 70 percent ‘original’. The other 30 percent are replica’s made out of some synthetic fabric. Dinosaur enthusiasts will also be able to bid on over 150 other dinosaur fossils and skeletons. This includes a Tyrannosaurus egg.

The Triceratops skeleton was found in North Dakota in the USA. It was sold to some rich European bastard in 2004. Because of the Triceratops’ famous head, with those three horns, it is one of the most well known Dinosaur species.

                                                       Triceratops. Cool eh ?

I think I have new hero. Though I also envy him big time !

An American man from the state of Virginia has to be the most lucky bastard on the face of the Earth. This lucky man will never have to worry about running out of beers for the rest of his life.

Matt Venzke was proclaimed Biggest Beer Enthusiast of America by beer brewer Wynkoop Brewing Co.

The beer brewing company from Colorado awarded the lucky man a lifetime supply of free beer. He is also awarded the opportunity to brew his own flavor of beer at the company.

Venzke assured the press he is not going to be drunk everyday for the rest of his life.  “It is about enjoying all different types and tastes of beer “, Venzke stated.

You can visit  the Wynkoop Beer Co. website here

note: Did you know Wynkoop, or Wijnkoop, means wine buyer in Dutch? Kind of a strange name for a beer brewer, don’t you think?

A company named Hyder Consulting is announcing it will build a skyscraper that will be twice as high as the record holding Burj Dubai Tower. The Burj Dubai is currently under construction in Dubai. Construction will be complete in 2008. When finished it will be a whopping 818 meters high.

The new skyscraper will be erected somewhere in the Middle East. Another company, the Kingdom Holding Company also announced it’s plans to  build a mega skyscraper. That tower will be named ” Mile High Tower “.

These two new mega-structures will compete for the record of highest building. The Mile High Tower will be at least 1600 meters high.

The Burj Dubai will be the highest building until those new towers have been built. Although construction on the Burj Dubai is not finished yet, it is already the highest building. At the moment is measures 158 stories high ( 598,5 meters). That is 90 meters higher then the Taipei tower in Taiwan and 40 meters higher then the CN Tower in Toronto.

                                                The Burj Dubai Tower

Would you look at this this ! The Swiss have invented a car that doubles as a submarine. The new sQuba can drive 124 kph on land, sail 5kph on water and travel 3kph submerged.

The  designer and maker of the car, Frank Rinderknecht is a real Bond-fan. I gotta say, it shows !

Apparently researchers found a fossil of a “Frog from Hell’ in Madagascar. The beast must have weighed approximately 4 kilograms.

The BBC brings it like this:

A 70-million-year-old fossil of a giant frog has been unearthed in Madagascar by a team of UK and US scientists.

The creature would have been the size of a “squashed beach ball” and weighed about 4kg (9lb), the researchers said.

They added that the fossil, nicknamed Beelzebufo or “frog from hell”, was “strikingly different” from present-day frogs found on the island nation.

Details of the discovery are reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The team from University College London (UCL) and Stony Brook University, New York, said the frog would have had a body length of about 40cm (16 inches), and was among the largest of its kind to be found.

“This frog, a relative of today’s horned toads, would have been the size of a slightly squashed beach-ball, with short legs and a big mouth,” explained co-author Susan Evans, from UCL’s Department of Cell and Developmental Biology.

read more at BBC