My fully crewed lab at Badlands Dinosaur Museum! From left to right: BLM contractor Deanna Neff, volunteers Dr. CarrieLynn Reinhard, Stephen Yanez, Jon Zink, and Rodney Benz.

Landed back in Bismarck after #bostonmarathon25 and meeting some very important old dead people, wrangling witches at a gas station and romping around New Hampshire. Love the humble chaos of the northeast. Back into fossil action tomorrow (or tonight?)

Prosaurolophus sacrum collected from Jack's Bonebed last July. A public project cut open live on @paleontologizing.bsky.social appearing on my Twitch stream (www.twitch.tv/fossilprepar...)

Dinosaur Park Fm. Collected on public lands near Havre, MT administered by the US Bureau of Land Management.

Live at Dickinson Museum Center - about to stream prep of our articulated, opisthotonic tyrannosaur block... www.twitch.tv/fossilprepar...

I'm live on Twitch, come hang out! Letting people roll in... www.twitch.tv/fossilprepar...

Mid-prep teaser specimen, Campanian turtle (Adocus sp.) from the Dinosaur Park fm, northern MT. Appears as an amorphous brown pillow.

Collected by Badlands Dinosaur Museum crew in 2024 on permit from public lands administered by the the Bureau of Land Management - Montana/Dakotas near Hinsdale, MT.

As finished on stream - scientifically prepared percoid Mioplosus labracoides - Green River Formation F-1 beds, Tynsky Quarry (Lewis Ranch) Kemmerer, WY.

Gonna attempt a Twitch stream of live fossil preparation w/Q&A - likely a short one Thursday night 8:45pm Mountain, then late night Saturday (11pm Mountain -). Look forward to a collab stream in coming months with @paleontologizing.bsky.social at his suggestion. If it all works...

@coastalpaleo.bsky.social was asked about this specimen, supposedly from the Pliocene of Eastern Montana. Some sort of big drumfish? Denver and I are a little baffled

Mio progress. Each scale takes ~20 minutes high mag mechanical prep & some air abrasive post-processing #paleontology #fossil #fish #fossilpreparation #wyoming

Fresh prepped by Deanna Neff in the Clawson lab - a lovely Mioplosus labracoides from the F-1 beds of the Green River Formation, Eocene. The skull has a disarticulation yielding an undeformed frontal. Partially disarticulated fish are more useful as we get clearer views of each element.

Some microprep updates on Mioplosus #1, working on integrating a prep Livestream using Wild phototube and Sony NEX

Bonus

Have been going through some rough spots lately, but those who saw my garden eel vid know that I really love animals so so much. Let this engineer goby (Pholidichthys leucotaenia) make your day by doing what he does best - chucking chunks of coral at the aquarium wall while Deanna and I laugh

Critters are amazing

Your destination for my pm prep progress photos. Day 5 or 6 or something on this sticky Mioplosus

New mount #stegobutt