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-There are some small, very tiny segments of the baby. But some of them are so small that we can't match anything up. Nothing like this has ever been found before.

 

It's much harder to recreate a baby than an adult. Only a few tiny fragments of a skeleton have ever been found. Paul's colleague Tommy is trying to piece together the remains² from a little more than dinosaur³ dust.

 

-There’s not a lot of pieces and it’s only for the skull⁴. See, I mean I've got several little pieces put together. Its bones had similar colour. Their texture⁵ on the surface was pretty close. And a lot of times I would look at the edge of the bone. You see, this one has a little white and a little black. A lot of times I was just trying to piece to see if they’d fit. A lot of people find it boring. But I don’t know. It calms me.

 

Although useful for scientists, these fossil remains are far too limited to bring a baby T-rex to life for an audience. And that's why the entire baby skeleton will be a model, its bones made not from fossils, but from foam⁶ and resin⁷. This is where the artists come in. They will produce creatures from their imaginations but they have to be guided by the science which provides them with a range of possibilities. Ultimately the animal that they draw or sculpt⁸ will be a blend of science and art. The baby T-rex will be sculpted⁹ by Doil, one of Louis's artists. 

 

-When you’re doing something that's brand new that there is no precedent¹⁰ for, it can be a little nerve-racking and it can be a lot fun. For my baby T-rex, there is no reference for that. So there’s a lot of interpretation¹¹ there. With his…

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