Montbrook pit, spring 2017

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 over Montbrook

Dust Devil

Volunteer, Glenn Hart, caught a picture of the huge dust devil that fell into our fossil pit today! The weather … Continue

Tiny fossil jacket within a bigger jacket

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

Montbrook diggers, October 2016

Current 360 Photo

Currently digging around and jacketing an adult gomphothere pelvis, young adult gomph palate w/ full dentition, slider… Posted by Rachel … Continue

Terry Tydings with a dwarf llama incisor.

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

Digging at the Montbrook site.

Attention Teachers

An opportunity for K-12 science teachers to participate at our dig site and bring this experience back to the classroom: … Continue

MuseumSelfie Day on site at Montbrook

#Museumselfieday

Sue Tennant found something big in her square! It’s a gomphothere scapula out here at Montbrook. Also, it’s #museumselfie day, … Continue

New flags expanding the dig site grid.

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

One lone digger

Season Forecast

The current volunteer forecast for the 2017 digging season: Weekends: max number of volunteers = 20 Weekdays: max number of … Continue