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(quick classical piano music) 

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- No, they're never just bones. 

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It's all part of history. 

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It's all part of the world's history. 

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The majority of people
don't know we're here. 

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The facility, it's custom
made to build dinosaurs. 

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My name's Peter May and I build dinosaur 

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skeletons for museums
throughout the world. 

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I'm the owner, president of
Research Casting International. 

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We have 50,000 square feet. 

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We can handle the biggest
skeletons in the world. 

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T-Rex, mastadons, allosaurs,
we've mounted and displayed 

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and built right around 800 skeletons. 

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(drills whiz) 

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(fast piano music) 

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In our back room, we have 50
skeletons sitting in crates. 

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When the skeleton arrives,
we un-crate it, unpack 

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and then it will go into
the conservation department. 

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It'll be cleaned and
hardened and any of the old 

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consolidants removed so
it's nice and strong. 

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It comes to the blacksmiths,
they hammer out the armatures. 

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Once all the armatures are
done, then we go to mounting. 

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All in all, they'll probably
be about a crew of ten 

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that'll handle the (inaudible). 

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And we call ourselves the Skeleton Crew. 

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(fast paced classical music) 

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We're doing a pair of skeletons right now, 

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the dryptosaurus', and they're probably in 

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one of the most dynamic
poses you'll ever see. 

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The two dryptosaurus'
like leaping in the air. 

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One on his back, one
leaping down on top of it. 

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We built the two big skeletons 

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in the first movie Jurassic Park. 

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The rearing barosaur at the 

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American Museum of Natural History. 

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For the Smithsonian, we're helping them 

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rebuild all their exhibits,
all the fossil animal exhibits. 

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Our job is to bring the
old skeletons to life. 

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I think when fossils arrive here, 

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we become the caretaker,
nothing can happen to it. 

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And every person who’s
handled it along the way 

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understands that responsibility. 

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By the time it's finished, it comes out a 

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much better fossil than when it arrived. 

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When it goes into the
exhibit at the museum 

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it's gonna last for another 100 years. 

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(cheery violin and piano music)