Behold a T-Rex holotype, paleontology's "gold standard"

06/01/2026 11 min Episodio 1408
Behold a T-Rex holotype, paleontology's "gold standard"

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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.Learn more about the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s exhibit “The Stories We Keep”.Interested in more archaeology and dino-related science? Email us your question at [email protected] to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy