Dino Lab

The evolution of a fossil: Discovery to a scientific specimen. Photo Left - Team members are slowly uncovering a large anterior caudal vertebrae of a large sauropod in the quarry. Photo Right - 2 1/2 years later lab tech Dave completes the finishing touches ready for cataloguing. It's not the excavation that takes so much time but rather the hours it takes in the lab preparing it that makes it a research-able specimen. Come join us in the field or the lab to get in on the action.

Just finish removing all the stegosaur fossils from this large plaster jacket. Fossil preparation is slow tedious work and sometimes it seems like you're making little headway. For example, getting this jacket done only to have it refilled with a new old fossil. Good job Jim! 😄