Final Week!
This is the final week of digging for the Spring 2017 Montbrook field season! We will be digging until the … Continue
Dust Devil
Volunteer, Glenn Hart, caught a picture of the huge dust devil that fell into our fossil pit today! The weather … Continue
Jacket Within a Jacket
Plaster and burlap jackets are usually very heavy. After flipping one of these jackets, we remove as much matrix (clay, … Continue
Current 360 Photo
Currently digging around and jacketing an adult gomphothere pelvis, young adult gomph palate w/ full dentition, slider… Posted by Rachel … Continue
Local Cat Owners: We Need Empty Cat Litter Buckets
Do you have cats? Do you use the big (25+ lb.) plastic buckets of litter? Do you want to help … Continue
Faunal List Expansion
This weekend, vertebrate paleontology collection manager, Richard Hulbert, discovered an upper molar of Hexameryx simpsoni, the six-horned pronghorn antelope. This … Continue
Attention Teachers
An opportunity for K-12 science teachers to participate at our dig site and bring this experience back to the classroom: … Continue
#Museumselfieday
Sue Tennant found something big in her square! It’s a gomphothere scapula out here at Montbrook. Also, it’s #museumselfie day, … Continue
Expanding the Grid
Today we expanded the dig site to the south. Setting up this meter-square grid system requires the use of the … Continue
Season Forecast
The current volunteer forecast for the 2017 digging season: Weekends: max number of volunteers = 20 Weekdays: max number of … Continue