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Dinosaurs revisited at BYU museum

"We know why the Earth was created, we just don't know how."

Published: Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:28 a.m. MDT
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PROVO — For a facility driven by the quest of discovery, Brigham Young University's Museum of Paleontology is, ironically, largely undiscovered by both the school's student body and neighboring community.

"We constantly find people who walk in and are surprised to find we're here," said Rodney Scheetz, museum curator and manager.

But once they visit, folks usually come back. Scheetz admits there's something about standing at the base of fearsome, towering dinosaur skeletons that draws out a child's curiosity in visitors of all ages

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