Trix, a 66-million-year-old female fossil found in Montana, will board a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight from Chicago to Amsterdam on Tuesday. The skeleton will next move to the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, a museum in nearby Leiden, a city of about 200,000.
Trix even has her own passport, whose headshot accurately captures the mood of most people in long airport security lines.
Image: Naturalis Biodiversity center
The Tyran**saurus transport arrives just a week after a different team of paleontologists unveiled new T. rex remains in Montana's Hell Creek Formation.* Read more...