The Paleontologist

Around Christmas time we got a chunk of earth. This block of brown clay seemed to hold something special. I hired an upcoming paleontologist to come investigate. He got right to work. Something I thought would take an hour turned into a two day project.

He used his modified toothpick to scrape away the clay and uncover small dinosaur bones. This finding excited him and he continued his scraping and digging. Every once in a while he pulled out a small brush and brushed the dirt from the bones.

At one point I offered to turn the lights on, but he preferred working with a light strapped to his head.

After all the hard work we were left with a pile of clay on one side of the table, and a pile of dino bones on the other.

Now we are going to glue these bones together to identify this ancient creature.