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What Can We Learn from Looking Inside a Dinosaur Bone?

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Scientists can learn a lot about a dinosaur by cutting into a fossil bone and examining its structure. Go behind the scenes of the paleohistology lab at the Museum of the Rockies where they’re looking at Triceratops limb bones and horns.

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