“Certainly, a clever person familiar with dinosaur morphology could have shaped a claw like this, and used it as a tool for murder. I assume you have tested the original fragment to see if it indeed is composed of a genuine biological material, such as keratin, rather than being cast or carved from some inorganic material?” “Yes, Doctor. It is real.” “And you are sure that the DNA was real, and not simply blood or flesh from the victim?” “Yes,” Pendergast replied. “As I said, it came from the root canal, not under the cuticle.” “And what, pray tell, was the DNA from?” “The final report isn’t
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