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Hughes said uncovering them is a labor-intensive, delicate process that involves peeling back rock layers, flipping them over, dusting them off, and piecing them back together to get "a really nice snapshot of the sea floor."

On a computer screen, the dinosaur’s internal architecture is put back together for the first time in millennia.

Susan Eubanks, the mother of late Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington, said the band promised to tell her if the group was getting back together.

“Dane, who I got to know really well, was really struggling and trying to put his life back together post-Ed Buck.”

Even if you were not that child who took his toys apart to see how they were made — and there is much ingenuity just in the construction of a plastic “Star Wars” X-wing fighter — there is a vicarious delight in watching it done, especially if you weren’t the sort who could ever put things back together.