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Unraveling the fascinating puzzle of who the Tyrannosaurus rexes were and how they lived, this book shares the amazing story of the uncovering and painstaking restoration of prehistory's most popular monster. Written by the most successful T. rex hunter in history, this guide tells how a crew without university grants or funding, even without PhDs, were able to buck the academic establishment and sometimes even the United States government and the FBI in the pursuit of discovery. Legal issues pertaining to the ownership of the finds are fully examined, as is the art, science, and high technology of creating the fantastic restored skeletons that are marveled at in museums.

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9781931229074

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The book anyone who loves dinosaurs must have! --Robert Bakker, Ph.D., author, The Great Dinosaur Heresies Fascinating ... bring[s] alive the mixture of grit and glamour in recovering fossils. -- The New Scientist Magazine Riveting ... a highly readable adventure story ... tough, if not impossible, for fossil fans on either side of the political fence to put down. -- The Denver Post

Riveting . . . a highly readable adventure story . . . tough, if not impossible, for fossil fans on either side of the political fence to put down. -- The Denver Post

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Peter Larson is the founder of the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research. His discoveries can be viewed at virtually every major natural history museum in the world. Kristin Donnan is a journalist and former editor at 'McCall's'. They both live in Hill Top, South Dakota.

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