It’s cloudy and damp. Better to be indoors. As my friend Megan and I walk through the halls of the University of Montana’s Geology department, we pass a glass case containing the skull and arm bones of a Tyrannosaurus rex. “Peck’s Rex” was found just outside Fort Peck, Montana, in 1997, but we stop to admire it only briefly; we’re on our way to check out a much smaller, but equally, I think, exciting fossil discovered in the same area. …

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