Beyond Bones

Ack! Paleontologists often take their lives in their hands to get to fossils. In this shot, they’re looking at some T. rex fossils on a two-foot ledge that’s hanging over a 100-foot drop. Thanks to Hurricane Ike, most of us were still without power when the Discovery Channel aired their documentary about Leonardo, the mummified […]

A team of paleontologists and volunteers starts the excavation of Leonardo. As you can see, it takes a great number of people to get a 6.5 ton fossil out of the earth. In about a week or so, I’ll be headed to Malta (that’s the one in Montana, not the one in the Mediterranean, but […]