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All,The unpredictable weather, the blizzard of people coming and going, and the rivers of amazing discoveries have kept me from uploading consistent lab notes to this page for many days. To boot, m...
The ceaseless search continues. Yesterday we succeeded in retrieving a large dinosaur limb bone from the top of a tall cliff. Just around the corner we discovered another site containing multiple b...
Days 13 and 14: Trickling in… Nicole here found her first dinosaur fossil yesterday! It's a piece of a hadrosaur. Her brother Ethan joins us as well, as he plans to study paleontology when he start...
Day 11 and 12: To collect or not to collect. 2 days ago we poked around some outcrop and found a few sites with bone exposed. We set about exploring these sites, digging small pits to determine if ...
Day 9: sand and hail Yesterday we decided to explore the Lance Formation outcrops east of our normal field area. The Lance preserves the final ecosystem of dinosaurs that lived in western North Ame...
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...
Day 7: Duck Bill Extravaganza!Today we continued prospecting in the badlands of the Almond Formation and made several more wonderful discoveries. Early in the day we located a thin band of ironsto...
Day 6Today myself and 2 new volunteers hiked around all day looking for dinosaurs and found 0 new sites! However, we found some spectacular plant fossils. They were eroding from a layer of red iron...
Days 4 and 5: comings and goings… Yesterday and today we said goodbye to some of our volunteers. They did a great job and found some outstanding fossils! We'll have many more volunteers coming up t...