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about T-Rex.

It's episode number 200, T-Rex Revisited, and in that episode, we also cover the debates

about lips and feathers on T-Rex.

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Hello and welcome to I Know Dino.

I'm Garrett.

And I'm Sabrina.

And we're dinosaur enthusiasts who want to share our love of dinosaurs with everybody and talk about some fun dinosaur facts and interesting things that are discovered as they're discovered. So today, our topic is going to revolve around the Tyrannosaurus Ricks,

one of the most popular dinosaurs in modern culture.

So we had a chance to interview Pete Larson, a paleontologist and president of the Black Hills

Institute of Geological Research in South Dakota, which Garrett and I were lucky enough to be

able to visit when we drove across the country.

And Pete Larson led the excavation of the T-Rex Sioux, who was the largest and most complete T-Rex found.

The interesting thing about the Black Hills Institute, when we were driving through South Dakota,

it was actually during the Sturgis motorcycle rally, and we had to park several blocks away from this place,

and you're walking down the street, and you're looking for a museum.

You're expecting a large building, you know, maybe columns or something, or at least a big sign.

And it's a very unassuming building.

It used to be, I think, a gymnasium.

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