NASA scans Samson

[Dino Guy Ralph <ralph.miller@alumni.usc.edu>]

Under the direction of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History staff, NASA 
technicians at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama are 
performing a CT scan on a well preserved _Tyrannosaurus rex_ skull known as 
Samson.  Unlike Sue, Samson appears to possess an undistorted skull.  Sue is 
larger than Samson.

Samson has been prepped by Carnegie preparators, and is being made available 
for study for a total of two years (commencing last May), after which time 
the specimen will be returned to its private owner.

See  press release at http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050110/dcm018_1.html.  See 
an account of the prep work with many photos at 
http://www.carnegiemnh.org/exhibits/samson.htm.
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"Dino Guy" Ralph W. Miller III
Docent at the California Academy of Sciences
proud member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

No word yet on the whereabouts of Delilah.  (Probably hidden away in a 
private collector's attic).