The Dig  Dr. Chan the paleontologist furrowed his brow and
mopped beads of sweat from his forehead. The newly-excavated
Tyranosaurus Rex skeleton was highly unusual, with several
remarkable features that couldn't readily be explained. The
T-Rex appeared to have died violently, but that was hardly
unusual for his species, a carnivore who often defeated large
prey for his meals when he couldn't scavenge.  What was unusual
was the fact that the specimen had apparently suffered several
severe blows to the head, resulting in puncture-type damage to
the cranial bone structure. The angle of the damage indicated
also that the blows had come from above, as if something had
descended upon the fearsome predator from the skies. Even more
strangely, the large skull of the T-Rex, even in its fossilized
state, showed indicators that the creature had additionally
suffered burns sufficient to cause charring to the bone surface.
Collectively, the injuries still discernible upon the skeleton
of the predacious dinosaur had almos