In a dark corner of the Field Museum’s basement, staff carefully lowered one of the largest hunks of dinosaur bones they have ever uncovered and tried to move in one piece.
the Field’s chief fossil preparator. “It eventually became so big that we’re like, holy s— what did we do?”
Guy Darrough has been hauling dinosaur bones for 30 years. He drove these bones on a 20-foot trailer attached to his pickup truck.In the museum’s basement, Shinya and her team will saw open the plaster casing and meticulously remove the bones from the mass of rock encasing them. The process will likely take a year.
“This area is only 350 miles from Chicago. So in terms of understanding what dinosaurs in this part of the world are like, this is a unique window,” Makovicky said. “It’s also turning out to be one of the most productive locality, if not the most productive locality, east of the great plains,” he said.The first was found in 1942 when a man dug in his backyard. That dinosaur, the Parrosaurus missouriensis, was the first dino ever found in Missouri. The state made it its official dinosaur in 2004.
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