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T. Rex
Video: Jack Horner and B. Rex
November 21, 2009 | CBS News

This is a segment from the show “60 Minutes” with Jack Horner, the paleontologist behind the main character in “Jurassic Park”, and Mary Schweitzer, a professor at NCSU. Horner and Schweitzer discuss a variety of topics which include: “B. Rex”, destroying fossils, soft tissue in fossilized bone, medullary bone, the genetic link between birds and dinosaurs, and more.


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