Here's a short video about the famous Edmontosaurus specimen named "Dakota," focusing on how NASA technology was used to look inside the slabs containing the skeleton. There are a few things about Dakota that have been taken a little bit too far (i.e. just because Edmontosaurus had a deep tail does not mean that all hadrosaurs did, and it will be interesting to see how the Brachylophosaurus specimen "Leonardo" differs from Dakota), but the video is a good general overview of what has been released about the fossil to date;
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