It took a team of four a week to reassemble the skeleton, which is one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossils on Earth
When the crates containing the fossilised bones of Victoria the T rex arrived at Melbourne Museum, one of Australia’s leading palaeontologists was giddy with excitement – and trepidation.
“It’s the closest I’ve ever got to the skull of a T rex,” Dr Erich Fitzgerald says.
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