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Re: good photo of Goodwin's good work
On Thu, 26 Oct 1995 PESELYG@LYNX.APSU.EDU wrote:
> _California Monthly_ (The magazine of the California Alumni
> Association), November 1995, p. 11, has a nifty photo by Greg
> Erickson of the new T. rex cast at UC Berkeley. Worth going
> to see. The caption reads:
>
> RISE OF A TYRANT: Everybody needs a pet, and the Valley Life
> Sciences Building just got one of the biggest: a full-sized
> cast of a _Tyrannosaurus rex_. A virtually complete skeleton
> of the meat-eating dinosaur, which weighed three to five tons
> and lived 66 million years ago, was discovered in 1988 on a
> ranch near Bozeman, Montana. Cast in polyurethane resin, a
Well, the Alumni Association almost got the facts right......
The T-Rex "cast" did come from Bozeman, compliments of the Museum of the
Rockies, but the original find was near Jordan, MT, a mere 200 miles NE
of Bozeman.
Bill Hansen
Great Falls, MT