Bone forensics

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Any anons into bone forensics? For fossil hunters, they basically only have bits of bone to work with. How do they know that a pile of bones belongs to one species, two? How do they know which specific species? If I had a femur bone from a "dinosaur" how would I know if it's from a megalosauras, T rex, triceratops? How would I know that same femur belonged to a allegedly similar species triceratops skull 4000 miles away? I find it hard to believe that over millions of years , that scientists are smart enough to know how to puzzle together a species from different parts over different distances (because they dont find "all" the bones in a dig site). And what dinosaur bones werent discovered until the 90s? give me a break. Btw pic related is C6 of a wild boar. looks awfully similar to a human vertebrae dont it?