Digging DinosaursThe personal story of a single dig and how it changed the current view of dinosaurs, this paints a vivid picture of the dinosaurs' day-to-day lives. Illustrated. |
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Page 17
... camp on that first trip was to sit me down and give me a beer . This is always the first thing Jack does with anyone , at camp or anywhere else . The camp was just what it sounds like - three teepees , a lot of scattered small tents , a ...
... camp on that first trip was to sit me down and give me a beer . This is always the first thing Jack does with anyone , at camp or anywhere else . The camp was just what it sounds like - three teepees , a lot of scattered small tents , a ...
Page 118
... camp very comfortable , except when it rained ; then the ground , which was mostly bentonite , turned to a heavy , sticky sub- stance something like wet cement that clung to our boots and made us walk as if earth gravity had just gone ...
... camp very comfortable , except when it rained ; then the ground , which was mostly bentonite , turned to a heavy , sticky sub- stance something like wet cement that clung to our boots and made us walk as if earth gravity had just gone ...
Page 162
... camp . We took a walk to look at the anticline , a common pastime when there was no actual digging to do and even when there was . I often walk around and look at things to get them straight in my head , to understand where things are ...
... camp . We took a walk to look at the anticline , a common pastime when there was no actual digging to do and even when there was . I often walk around and look at things to get them straight in my head , to understand where things are ...
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Digging Dinosaurs: The Search That Unraveled the Mystery of Baby Dinosaurs Gorma Horner,John R. Horner No preview available - 1990 |
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acid adult animals baby bones baby dinosaurs Bear Paw shale big bone bed birds Bob Makela bone bed caliche called camp Camposaur carnivores ceratopsians Choteau collection creatures crew deposits digging dinosaur bones dinosaur eggs dinosaur fossils dinosaurs dirt discoveries duckbills egg clutches Egg Gulch Egg Mountain eggshell fragments embryos endotherms evidence femur fossil bones fossils geological green mudstone hadrosaurs hatched herbivores herd hill Horner hypsilophodontids Jill Peterson Judith River formation juvenile dinosaurs kind of dinosaur lake lambeosaurs land layers lizards maiasaurs mammals Marion Brandvold Medicine formation metabolism miles million years ago Montana mudstone Museum nose ornithischians Orodromeus paleontologists Peebles ranch perhaps Phil Currie preserved Princeton reptiles Ricqlès rock Rockies saurischian sauropods season sediments skeletons skull species spot streams summer surface teepees teeth temperature Troodon upper coastal plain vertebrate paleontology walking warmblooded Willow Creek anticline young dinosaurs