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    T. rex survived millions of years. But at this museum it needs a hand battling dust

    by Nina Agrawal, Los Angeles Times Feb 28, 2018 3 minutes

    NEW YORK - Trenton Duerksen's eyes scoured the massive skull before him, darting left and right as he searched for his nemesis: particles of fine, sticky dust that resemble gray snow.

    Perched atop a scissor lift in the dinosaur wing of the American Museum of Natural History, Duerksen was standing eye to eye with Tyrannosaurus rex. His task for the day: ridding the 39-foot-long specimen of dust and dander that accumulates on it from 5 million visitors passing through the museum every year.

    Duerksen started with the head. "Top-down, that's

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