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Monday, September 04, 2006

By Erika Engelhaupt
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

PATERSON, N.J. _ Tom Bugler bends over a 2 {-inch-wide steel rod, with his blowtorch blazing and sweat beading above his dark glasses. A few deft tugs, and the metal assumes the shape of a bone laid in the Earth more than 65 million years ago.

When he's finished, the rod will run up the back of a Tyrannosaurus rex's leg as smoothly as the seam on a pair of nylon stockings.

Peek into Phil Fraley's studio

early megalosaur drawing

A 19th Century megalosaur drawing