Hey everyone.
While some of the team is off hunting down the KT Boundary, Hayden, Tommy and I are back at Bone Man's dig site. Hayden and Tommy are mapping strata and taking core samples, and I am focused on doing a little dino digging. I have always wanted to try my luck at unearthing some of those wondrous creatures of the past, so, today I am. Armed with all the tools I need (furnished by Bone Man, of course), I got right to it. I brought along the Samsung Gear 360 that my friend Dave so graciously lent me, and I set it up for time lapse. The video is attached to this blog so you can see what it takes to dig bones right along as I do it. It is tenuous, and painstaking but the result is to be the very first human beings to see (and in my case, touch) an animal that died right here over 65 to 70 million years ago. The bones I am working on are of a Hadrosaur. If you look closely, you can see as I uncover a foot bone, some vertabrae and a rib. Also there is a bit of tail vertabrae that I uncover. Todd was very generous, and when I finished for the day he allowed me to keep two of the foot bones, a meta taursus flange and a meta taursus. I also found a Hadrosaur tooth, and some other small bones including some of the fossilized tendons, possibly from the foot bones. All in all, It was an amazing check off of one of the things that was on my bucket list!
While some of the team is off hunting down the KT Boundary, Hayden, Tommy and I are back at Bone Man's dig site. Hayden and Tommy are mapping strata and taking core samples, and I am focused on doing a little dino digging. I have always wanted to try my luck at unearthing some of those wondrous creatures of the past, so, today I am. Armed with all the tools I need (furnished by Bone Man, of course), I got right to it. I brought along the Samsung Gear 360 that my friend Dave so graciously lent me, and I set it up for time lapse. The video is attached to this blog so you can see what it takes to dig bones right along as I do it. It is tenuous, and painstaking but the result is to be the very first human beings to see (and in my case, touch) an animal that died right here over 65 to 70 million years ago. The bones I am working on are of a Hadrosaur. If you look closely, you can see as I uncover a foot bone, some vertabrae and a rib. Also there is a bit of tail vertabrae that I uncover. Todd was very generous, and when I finished for the day he allowed me to keep two of the foot bones, a meta taursus flange and a meta taursus. I also found a Hadrosaur tooth, and some other small bones including some of the fossilized tendons, possibly from the foot bones. All in all, It was an amazing check off of one of the things that was on my bucket list!
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