A private museum at Dino Lab, which is in the process of moving to James Bay, offers a glimpse at the work the company does turning bones into full dinosaur skeletons
That’s a T. rex tooth, about the same size as the fruit, but 10 times the weight and, honestly, quite thrilling to hold in your hand, imagining the damage it must have done to prey in prehistoric times.
Getting hands-on with the specimens is encouraged at Dino Lab, a Victoria company that turns bones into full dinosaur skeletons and has a private museum for public viewing. Carly Burbank created a museum out of the specimens she and partner Terry Ciotka have collected over the decades, and offers guided tours and birthday parties where people can touch and examine prehistoric finds — and even get into a lab coat and do some excavating themselves with dentist-drill-type compressors and other tools.
There’s a baby Tenontosaurus that died 115 million years ago, and is completely intact and embedded in rock. Added Burbank: “I went to art school and I was obsessed with stone carvings and I’d go to museums in Europe and I’d say please let me touch.”
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