RMDRC paleo lab

Some people asked me not too long ago about what we do in order to get some of these bones ready for molding. In the case of Pete III, our D...

Apparently TPI is the new home for the small turtles of the Niobrara chalk. We've already prepared, molded and cast our tiny Chelospharg...

I feel a bit guilty. I found a gar specimen last year, in a soft sand, and I was afraid to prepare it. I had nightmares of thousands of bony...

It's long overdue for an update, and since the weather in Montana isn't cooperating with our plans to head up there today and finish...

Over the past few weeks, Jacob and I were out doing some scouting and excavation in the lower Niobrara chalk in western Kansas. With the rec...

Just finished a sort of long-term new project for us. Occasionally we get requests from museums and universities to come out in the field w...

We're on to the big jacket! Current map of confirmed bones. Base image courtesy Scott Hartmann Thanks to Scott Hartmann and Skeleta...

When is a dinosaur not a dinosaur? When it's fairly dull I guess. Just look at Thescelosaurus. Not brainy, not much in the way of fangs,...

Jacob and I have been hammering away at the remaining small jackets of Pete III. By small I mean things less than the 4 ton main jacket mons...

While I was away soaking up pathogens at SVP in Las Vegas last week, paleotech Jacob Jett has been busy preparing some of the jackets from t...