We may never have done it ourselves, but we can guess that reconstructing a dinosaur skeleton requires a well-developed Persistence superpower.

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Another amazing shot from the archives: Museum staff work on mounting a duck-billed dinosaur, 1916, © AMNH Library/Image #34799

Explore all the photos from the Picturing the Museum collection here: http://bit.ly/l8nOsp 

This would make a beautiful painting.