The dinosaur secrets found in the archives of a natural history museum
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What happens behind the scenes of a dinosaur exhibit? Short Wave host Regina Barber got to find out … by taking a trip to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. In the museum’s basement, she talked to a paleobiologist, checked out a farmland fossil find and even touched a 67 million-year-old bone. Because, as it turns out, there’s a lot of science that can be found in a museum basement.<br><br><strong>Learn more about the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s exhibit “</strong><a href="https://carnegiemnh.org/explore/stories-we-keep-pittsburgh/"target="_blank" ><strong>The Stories We Keep</strong></a><strong>”.</strong><br><br><br><em>Interested in more archaeology and dino-related science? Email us your question at </em><a href="mailto:[email protected]"target="_blank" ><em>[email protected]</em></a><em>.</em><br><br><br><em>Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at </em><a href="http://plus.npr.org/shortwave"target="_blank" ><em>plus.npr.org/shortwave</em></a><em>.</em>