Nearly two hundred people have this weekend worked in Leiden on a particular puzzle. They tried to fit the tiny skeletal remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex together.
Naturalis museum are thousands of shards of neck vertebrae and ribs of the T-rex. Eventually, 30 bits were found to match one another
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The bone remnants are part of the skeleton of a T-rex that lived 66 million years ago. Scientists Naturalis grooves dinosaurs remains in 2013 in the United States.
Five million euro
Last year the museum bought the complete skeleton. Using crowd funding and sponsorship, the museum received the required 5 million together. The whole skeleton is in September next year to Leiden. In 2018, it gets a place of honor in the new museum building.
RTL News / Reuters
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