May 21, 2011

• More Fossil work

  Recently we took a day off from farming and visited a local museum.  Our friends volunteer in the Paleo Lab at the museum and they arranged a tour for us.   It was wonderful to see the "behind the scenes" at the Paleo storage and lab.  

  

  This was a specimen probably from the 1930's and Joshua is getting an explanation of how they protect and transport specimens from the field.  We learned of different materials they have used in the past and what they found to be the best and why.

  After a tour of the storage,  it was amazing to see all the dino bones,  we headed over to the Paleo lab to see what they do there.  Our tour guide,  the head of the department,  put Joshua to work on cleaning turtle fossils and trying to assemble them.   He took his job very seriously.

  

  

  

  Joshua is with our friend Mary.

  It was a fantastic day. 

  

  
  
  

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