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Drilling Into 66-Million-Year-Old <em>T. Rex</em> Teeth Reveals a Human-Like Body Temperature

Learn how more than a decade of lab work persuaded a museum to part with precious fossils, allowing researchers to take T.

Drilling Into 66-Million-Year-Old <em>T. Rex</em> Teeth Reveals a Human-Like Body Temperature

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