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While excavating the huge hadrosaurid femur we found some other interesting little fossils. Among these are numerous little scales from large 'gar' or 'pike' fish. Also associated with the site are...
We exposed the femur jacket from last year and it seems to be in good shape! We're hoping that the high altitude winter didn't do too much damage to the specimen, but we will have to wait for prepa...
After our extensive prospecting trip June, I was very eager return to Wyoming and poke around. With excavation permits in hand, we were finally allowed to begin making some headway in excavating la...
Our excavation permits, the formal permissions which allow us to dig pits large enough to exhume whole skeletons, have just been approved by the Bureau of Land Management. This means that when we r...
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 ...