Crews out at the Snap Creek Camp are busy excavating two Triceratops skulls.  One, named Joe's Trike, discovered by movie director Joe Johnston appears to be a young adult skull, and the other, named Lauren's Trike is apparently that of a large adult, but the skull is in several chunks.  Lauren is a volunteer from UC Berkeley.  With temperatures in the 100s the crews are working under shade tarps, and swimming in ponds after work.  MOR's Bob Harmon is the Field Crew Chief, and other members of the crew include Brian Basiak (MSU grad student), Becky Schaff and Lee Hall (MSU students), Kari Baker, Liz Johnson, Sara Keenan, Judith Sassoon, and Malorie Snider.  Nels Peterson is the Tech for the crew.

The field season is finally in progress after lots of rain, but is now extremely hot.  Seems like we've gone from drenching rain to 100+ temperatures without any nice weather in-between.  So far I've had 7 field crews out searching for dinosaurs:

1.  Brachylophosaurus (duck-bill) leg from the Judith River Formation near Malta, Montana, excavated for the purpose of looking for soft tissues and biomolecules, for a study to be conducted by Mary Schweitzer.

2.  Two duck-bill skeletons from the Judith River Formation (Redding Field Station), near Rudyard, Montana, being excavated as part of an ongoing project conducted by doctoral student Liz Freedman, to determine the dinosaur fauna of the lower Judith River Formation.

3.  Exploration and collection of dinosaur remains from the Lower Cretaceous Cloverly Formation near Harlowton, Montana conducted by Bill and Kris Parsons, Museum of the Rockies, Museum ...

Hello everyone and welcome to the Bone Blog. Here you can check out regular updates about my research and ask me questions. I'm excited about the successful opening of my new exhibit at the Museum of the Rockies called Dinosaurs under the Big Sky. If you haven't seen it yet I hope you will visit soon! Well, I'm headed off for the start of our summer 2007 field season. Check back here for updates on new discoveries!