let's do this hello I'm dr. hunt Zeus
our museum just opened its brand-new
fossil hall and to celebrate I'm here to
answer your questions about dinosaurs
life and even cats this question comes
to us from Instagram who do you know if
you have collected all the bones of a
specimen and aren't missing any this is
something that keeps many
paleontologists awake at night it's kind
of like buying a kid from Ikea and
trying to put together a piece of
furniture and you really have all of the
screws and we have the same situation
with dinosaur skeletons often what
happens is that a cadaver of a dinosaur
fell apart and some bones were washed
away so we try to cover as much area as
we can around the skeleton but we can't
really be sure usually a dinosaur
skeleton likes quite a few bones and we
have to reconstruct them either from
other specimens of this dinosaur or we
do this based on the bones of related
animals here's a question that comes to
us from Instagram
hey dr. Hans I'm a big fan who hates
cats just like your mom hmm the Jurassic
period marks the arrival of Stegosaurus
but Tyrannosaurus is from the Cretaceous
period who has a better chance of
winning a duel this would be a really
complicated old because these two
dinosaurs lived almost a hundred million
years apart but let's assume that we
somehow managed to get them in an arena
for good fight
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and put my money on the tyrannosaurs
because tyrannosaurs has this bone
crushing bite and even the body arm of a
Stegosaurus could be no match for
Instagrammer thylacine machine rights
dr. Hans now that the fossil hall is
open will you continue the show I don't
know it's not in my hands
perhaps I've become too popular am i a
mean yet I don't know I'm just a small
cog in the great wheel of the
Smithsonian Institution answer your
questions each week has truly been a
pleasure but I must get going there are
new fossils to be found
I hope that you have learned something
about dinosaurs cats and most
importantly yourself please pay us a
visit real soon
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