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Okay. Stormwave from NPR. Picture you're sitting in the plush seats of a movie theater,

popcorn in hand, Sour Patch Kids next to you,

and on screen, you're staring at an enormous T-Rex chasing its prey. That's part of the plot of many

movies in the Jurassic Park franchise. And as a scientist, as much as I love some movie magic, I've

always wondered, how close are those dinosaurs on screen to the creatures that actually walked,

flew, and swam on Earth millions of years ago. So the scene in Jurassic Park.

This is the OG Jurassic Park.

You know, where...

You can't see us if we don't move.

It's actually extra problematic with T-Rex,

because it probably had one of the best visual acuity in any dinosaur.

That's Matt LaMonna,

a dinosaur paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. He's loved dino's his whole life. I told my parents I wanted to be a paleontologist when I was four years old, supposedly.

I recently took a trip to the museum to talk Jurassic World with Matt. He's one of the

curators who helped design the dinosaur exhibits at the museum. He gave World with Matt. He's one of the curators who helped design

the dinosaur exhibits at the museum. He gave me a tour. Most of what you see in the dinosaur

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