How to Build a Dinosaur

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Alice Roberts

Jonathan Renouf

Olly Bootle

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Factual: Science & Nature

21/09/2011

BBC Four - How to Build a Dinosaur

Dr Alice Roberts finds out how the experts put dinosaur skeletons back together.

Dr Alice Roberts finds out how the experts put dinosaur skeletons back together, with muscles, accurate postures and even, in some cases, the correct skin colour.

Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago and we have hardly ever found a complete skeleton. So how do we turn a pile of broken bones into a dinosaur exhibit? Dr Alice Roberts finds out how the experts put skeletons back together, with muscles, accurate postures and even, in some cases, the correct skin colour.

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