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Back in the lab – trying to make heads or tails of it all.
After three days of successful fieldwork on the chilly Grand Rapids Uplands, we return – toting a fresh batch of fossils – to The Manitoba Museum in Winnipeg. This is the home turf of my colleague, Graham Young, and almost a second home for me. Graham’s lab in the Museum’s Geology and
Southern Alberta field collection 2011 has arrived!
Marked field jackets containing horned dinosaur bones from the McPheeter’s bonebed (MBB) and the South Side Ceratopsian (SSC). The fossil bones that we collected from the Milk River region of southern Alberta arrived late last week, and we have just opened the massive crate and
On the Rocks Again — in which a pair of intrepid palaeontologists head for the hinterland.
Ah, the romance of fieldwork. There’s nothing quite like waiting for the morning sun to rise high enough to illuminate a cold, wet outcrop, so that one can spend the next 8 or 9 hours kneeling in mud and splitting razor-sharp rock slabs. But we have hot coffee in the thermos, dry gloves in the
Summerasuarus: Dino Storage
Recently, we visited at the Vertebrate Palaeontology Lab to see how dinosaur bones are extracted from their plaster field jackets after they are hauled back from the field by palaeontologists like Dr. David Evans . But where does the ROM store these fossils once they are free from their rock
From the Field: Farewell Churchill
July 27 The weather forecast was pretty much on the money, and a dismal dawn yields to thunder-squalls rolling across the tundra. But, after breakfast and a second cup of coffee, the rain eases and we are a shade more optimistic about our flight out later this morning. Time for one last walkabout
From the Field: Last day before departure
July 26 It’s our last full day here. Tomorrow morning we fly back south to Winnipeg - if the weather cooperates. The forecast is calling for possible thunderstorms all the way up the west coast of Hudson Bay past Arviat to Rankin Inlet and Baker Lake, where our flight originates. Typical …
From the Field: Hudson Bay’s Ancient Treasures
July 25 The Arctic high pressure system that has brought such an improvement in the weather is still with us, heralding perfect conditions for a trek to the most spectacular stretch of geology along this entire coastline! Today we’re heading down to what my colleague, Graham Young, has called
From the Field: Finding “Miss Piggy” and Late Ordovician fossil fragments
July 24 Away to the airport this morning to see Ed off to Winnipeg - there goes our ace bear protection and GPS expert! At least we had a chance to do the firearms familiarization before his departure, so all are up to speed on handling various pyrotechnic deterrents. I’ll ride shotgun in
Summerasaurus Part VI: Un-jacketing dino bones in the Vertebrate Palaeontology Lab
Today, we thought we’d offer you a behind-the-scenes look at the Vertebrate Palaeontology Lab to see what happens to dino bones between being excavated and being put on display or used for research. Field jackets about to be opened are stored in the Vertebrate Palaeontology Lab. When
From the Field: Ancient Sea Scorpion Fossil Found
July 23 Clear skies at last! Down to the coast to catch good morning lighting and a fortuitously low tide, so we can see in detail how fossil-bearing Upper Ordovician carbonate deposits (445 million years old) at our main locality “lap” against the elevated flanks of a much more ancient rock