Preparators Jeanne Kelly and Marilyn Fox finish up restoration of Xiphactinus fossil for 1996 gallery opening.
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Spent the evening cleaning some Cleveland-Lloyd Allosaurus podials. I’m a fossil janitor! Woot woot! #nhmu #allosaurus #dinosaur #dinosaurs #paleo #paleontology #fossil #science #biology #animal #zoology #museum #podial #Cleveland-Lloyd
This is going better than I thought it would.
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Fossil Friday, Fossil Prep. A lot of work goes into preparing a fossil specimen. Tons of hours go in to removing the field jacket and separating the fossil from the rocky matrix.
© The Field Museum, GEO80547_A.
Mr. Orville “Gilly” Gilpin preparing fossil vertebrates.
5x7 negative
2/1/1948
Cool! Never knew what he looked like.