Researcher finds new information from dinosaur bones

Kristina Curry Rogers
Kristi Curry Rogers is a dinosaur researcher at Macalester College in St. Paul. She is shown here in an MPR studio on Nov. 30, 2011.
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A Minnesota researcher has made it her job to learn more about dinosaurs from their bones. Kristi Curry Rogers of Macalester College is part of a team publishing new research in the journal Nature Communications about the Rapetosaurus, whose bones she's been studying in Madagascar.

Specially, we're talking about one big bone. Rogers talked with MPR's Tom Crann about her latest research.

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