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  • n  a specialist in paleontology

  • There, resident palaeontologist John Scanlon frees the bones by dissolving the surrounding limestone in dilute acetic acid.
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  • Adult Dinosaurs Were Still Growing When They Died, Fossils Suggest
    Presenting this week at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's meeting in Los Angeles, California, palaeontologist Jack Horner of the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, revealed that when he cut open the fossilized bones of dinosaurs in the museum’s collection and studied the layers of bone within, he found signs in most specimens that the animals were still growing at the time of ...
    Nov. 3, 2013 - The Huffington Post

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