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Boning up on dinosaurs

Published: 14 October 2008

Chantal Montreuil's dream was to work with animals - live ones, that is. But as a fossil technician at McGill University, it's her job to piece together the featured exhibit at this week's Meet the Triceratops event. Montreuil is working from hundreds of small fossilized bones that add up to about 70 per cent of a teenage triceratops's skull - bones collected on digs led by Hans Larsson, a McGill professor of evolutionary biology, in southwestern Saskatchewan.

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