Last week of fieldwork

[obligatorycoffee]

Oh thank goodness, I'm exhausted. This coming week is the last week I'll be doing fieldwork this year, which honestly has been my own little personal hell. I won't vent a whole ton, but to put it succinctly, most things that could have gone wrong did, and I had almost no help from the people who promised to train me, fund me, and generally have my back. I've also done a great job of pushing my meat suit to its limits, and will likely have to spend some time pampering my joints and spine. Even so, I was marginally successful at doing the research I was tasked with, although at a far smaller scale than intended. Anyway, it's almost over and I can put some more time into being present here and on my other accounts, and generally updating the darn website.

In some brighter news, I tagged along on a dinosaur dig earlier last month, and we found SO MANY FOSSILS. It was honestly really incredible, and at one point the company we were working for begged everyone to stop finding bones because there were so many uncovered that they just wanted to get the ones out of the ground that they already knew about and not worry about the zillions of diplodocus ribs sticking out everywhere. Super super cool, and I got to jacket a handful of fossils for transport. It was an amazing experience, and I took a ton of photos. While I'm at it, have a few more fieldwork photos too.

Comments

[citrakayah]

What kinds of fossils did you find, other than Diplodocus?

[obligatorycoffee]

Allosaurus for sure, including teeth, and possibly Stegosaurus and some other kind of sauropod. Some of these were already exposed, but we helped excavate them.