How To Build A T. Rex

When you drive around the outskirts of Paterson, New Jersey, past windowless taverns with scarred metal doors and warehouses on weed-wild lots, one of the last things you might expect to find is dinosaur fossils. And yet, pull into the driveway of a former foundry, push through the door and into an 11,000-square-foot studio with ceilings higher than the average church, and there they are: the fossil bones of Samson, one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons ever discovered.