TRENTON, Ontario — A team of dinosaur specialists from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History drove down a tree-lined road outside Toronto, past a Carquest Auto Parts store and up to a gray, aluminum-sided building that held a spectacle 65 million years in the making.
Then they stepped inside and finally saw it: the “Nation’s T. rex” standing upright for the first time since the Cretaceous Period.
One of them gasped. Arms crossed, another quietly circled the 12-foot-tall, 35-foot-long skeleton. A third — the one who almost always has something to say — could say nothing at all