February 28, 2023
Dr. Christian Sidor, The Burke Museum's curator of vertebrate paleontology, and Brandon Peecook, a former UW graduate student who's now the Curator of Paleontology at Idaho State University, show the size and placement of the fossil fragment compared to the cast of a Daspletosaurus femur in 2015. (Courtesy of the Burke Museum)
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