Having a dino-mite time

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - April 29, 2009

Call it Dino-mite!

Researchers at Dinosaur National Monument, on the Utah-Colorado border, are trading their delicate tools for something a lot louder.

The scientists are using explosives to blast through the rock-hard sandstone.

One paleontologist says not even jackhammers could get to the fossils.

The researchers are working in an area that yielded a complete sauropod skull, one of the rarest dinosaur finds.

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