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Day 8… a bust! 

Today we used glue to help strengthen one of our hadrosaur specimens which was strewn about in a series of huge sandstone boulders. Other members of the team searched all around but couldn't find any more vertebrates. Some lovely leaf fossils were found though, the finest so far. These will hopefully help flesh out the ecosystem some more. Our team split up into two groups this morning and I'm waiting on word from the other group. Fingers crossed that they found some new sites! Tomorrow we'll be back at it.

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The Late Cretaceous Almond Formation has been known to produce dinosaurs since 1937. Still, the fauna it preserves remains almost entirely unknown. In 2021 we found the first turtles, fish, and crocodylomorphs as well as several dinosaurs including hadrosaurids and the first ankylosaur from the formation. Our aim is return to the deposit and thoroughly document its ecosystem for the first time to inform future studies of dinosaur evolution and distribution.

Blast off!

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