In a dark corner of the Field Museum’s basement, staff carefully lowered one of the largest hunks of dinosaur bones they have ever uncovered and tried to move in one piece.
The Field Museum in Chicago has a new fossil.In a dark corner of the Field Museum’s basement, staff carefully lowered one of the largest hunks of dinosaur bonesStrapped to a broad pallet, the 2,500 pound chunk of bones and rock dubbed "the Beast" was wrapped in plaster to protect it on its trip from southern Missouri toIts contents: the bones of a 35-foot-long duck-billed dinosaur called Parrosaurus missouriensis that Field Museum scientists uncovered five years ago.
As the crew carved around one bone, they’d hit another bone and carve around that one. Again and again. Guy Darrough has been hauling dinosaur bones for 30 years. He drove these bones on a 20-foot trailer attached to his pickup truck.Chicago is home to one of the biggest dinosaur collections on the planet
Shinya says she’s fascinated with the latest dino haul because the bones were found in central United States, where dinosaur fossils are rarely discovered. "It’s very rare to find fossils, let alone almost complete, very huge dinosaurs coming out of the middle of the Ozarks," she said.The discovery will help researchers understand more about the dinosaurs in the midwest, said Pete Makovicky, an associate researcher at the Field and professor at the University of Minnesota.
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