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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