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Massive T. rex skull unearthed in Montana

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« on: August 20, 2016, 08:31:32 pm »

The massive skull was painstakingly cut from the rock and then transported to the Burke Museum in Seattle encased in a protective layer of plaster.

Such is the excitement about the discovery, that the museum decided it would go on show on Saturday before the plaster layer was removed so that the public could marvel at its sheer size.

It will be taken down in October to allow experts to separate the fossil from the rock, enabling the skull to go on show for the opening of the New Burke Museum in 2019.

A team of 45 people took part in the excavation of the dinosaur, which was discovered after two museum volunteers Luke Tufts and Jason Love found its vertebrae sticking out of the hillside last year. It has been named the ‘Tufts-Love Rex’ in their honour.

It was only until this summer that paleontologists realised just how well the giant creature, which would have been about the length of a bus from tip to tail, had been preserved.
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