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Ever Smell T-Rex's Breath?
Jim Hawkins writes "Well, in case you never have the chance of getting up close and personal with a T.Rex, Dale Air, a company who 'nose' its smells, has recreated Tyrannosaurus Rex's breath for London's Natural History Museum. Seems people made a stink about the rotting flesh smell that would exist on T-Rex's breath - guess someone forgot to tell him to brush his teeth."
It's been there since 2001.
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I'm sure this has been there for several years - in fact I saw it when I was in London and I've since emigrated! I heard that the smell they recreated was actually a lot tamer than the original would have done, since obviously they didn't want people keeling over or being sick - so the smell they have there is more like vaguely rotting cabbage than the stench of rancid meat. Certainly when I saw it it didn't smell all that bad.
"-Rex's breath - guess someone forgot to tell him to brush his teeth."
I used to catch beared dragons when I was a kid. They didn't have bad breath (that I can remember) but if they bit you the bacteria on their teeth could be nasty.
Yes, they do have the fart smell. It's listed as "Flatulence #9668" in their catalog.
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Actually, (to take a bit of a tangent) I read somewhere that it may one day be possible to detect cancer by smelling someone's breath with an electronic nose.
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Wasn't there a story about training dogs to do that?
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According to the article, it utilizes Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS) to detect concentration levels of acetone in a person's breath gas.
A recent article in Palaeontologica Electronica (vol 7, issue 1) suggests so. A brief summary in the New Scientist news article