New Years is a funny time for a paleontologist since we generally think in terms of millions of years.  What's another year, other than a time to be thinking about what we collected last summer, or what we might find next summer?  This year (2007 for the next 10 hours) was my 25th year at the Museum of the Rockies, and it is kind of fun to think back on all the specimens that my field crews have collected over two and a half decades.  We have more than a dozen T.rex skeletons, two dozen Triceratops, and nearly fifty skeletons of dinosaurs like Maiasaura, Hypacrosaurus and Einiosaurus.  We have the world’s only Triceratops growth series, the best known specimens of Tenontosaurus, Einiosaurus, Achelosaurus, Thescelosaurus, Orodromeus, Hypacrosaurus stebingeri, and Troodon. MOR also has the only dinosaur egg clutches known from the United States.  I think it’s pretty cool that 25 years ago a person would have to go to New York City to see fossils from most of the dinosaur species found here in Montana. Now we have them on display right here at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana.  In 2008 we'll go out and find some more--we'll probably ship some of them off to the Smithsonian so they too can have some Montana dinosaurs for people to see.  

Above image: Egg clutches on display in the Hallway or Growth and Behavior at MOR.