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good photo of Goodwin's good work
_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
copy of the skeleton was acquired by Berkeley's Museum of
Paleontology. It was largely paid for by private donations,
including some $5 gifts by school kids. After a team led by
senior museum scientist Mark Goodwin spent three months
assembling the 40-foot-long skeleton, T-rex now curves around
the elegant VLSB atrium.
George Pesely
Clarksville, TN
peselyg@lynx.apsu.edu