Now that all our Montana crews are out of the field, several of us are preparing for our last expedition of the year to Mongolia to continue collecting specimens of Psittacosaurus.  So far we have more than 100 skeletons that will be used to study species variation, and population histology.  We are working with Bolor Minjin and her father Minjin Chulaan out of the Science and Technology University of Mongolia.  You can check out what we've been up to by reading the cover story in the latest issue of Discover Magazine (September 2007 issue).  The photo shows one of our psittacosaur excavations from last year.  The pole holds a camera for taking time-lapse photography.