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Boiling. Literally
Today we surface collected from a new site that a member of the crew found on an evening prospecting trip a few days ago. Now a barren wasteland, it once represented a place where the Cretaceous river...
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Close of week 2
It’s been hot and extraordinarily dry in Utah the past two weeks as we’ve worked to collect all the bones from our two quarries. We’ve done a fair bit of prospecting too and from the look of the...
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The Cliffs Close In
Our most difficult prospecting spots in this area are up in the Cliffs of Insanity, our term for a very steep section of outcrop that rises 1000 feet above Last Chance desert. These beds are only...
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Wrapping Up
After three weeks, we closed our active quarries, left our main field area, and headed somewhere new to search for promising areas further south. If our primary areas seems remote, this new place was...
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Kicking off in New Mexico
Long days and poor cellular service prevented us from blogging in real time during our first expedition of 2017 to Upper Cretaceous formations in northwest New Mexico. We were able to keep up on...
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Feet On The Ground: The Menefee
After a trying time in the Crevasse Canyon Formation, we had high hopes for more abundant fossils in the Menefee. This was our first time prospecting this strata but we had teamed up with Andy Heckert...
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Setting up and splitting up in Utah
Our full team of 11 stared out the Utah expedition with two days of picking and shoveling at the famed Crystal Geyser Quarry (CGQ), tomb of an estimated 300 Falcarius utahensis skeletons. I had worked...
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Deep Eddy Begins Again
After splitting off from the CGQ crew, Deep Eddy team was excited to return to our best site from last year – a dinosaur egg site. We weren’t excited about the hike, which was as bad as we remembered…...
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Putting Deep Eddy to Rest
As the team continued the long hike in and out of Deep Eddy, we were rewarded with the discovery of more eggs within the quarry. Since it was 3-4 hrs of hiking in and out a day, we spent as much time...
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This year our Montana expedition could be classified as a grab and dash operation. Having discovered a what appeared to be a Triceratops prorsus skull in 2016, and explored with a few test pits in...
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