The SAIL Pathfinders had the opportunity to head out to the wilds of Wyoming to an active dinosaur dig to learn about paleontology and get a little hands on experience. This dig is manned by the folks at SWAU, and teh SAILs were excited to visit the place where the bones came from that they worked on earlier in the year in the university lab, and even to see one of the same people who gave them their tour in Texas. After learning about what lived in this region, how then large assemblage of dinosaur fossils likely came to be here, and how good science can provide alternative interpretations, the Pathfinders got to tour the active bone quarries, and learn how fossils are extracted, and even got to practice in a mini-dig site (and keep a piece of dinosaur bone).
The morning started a bit rocky, because all the rain meant that it was difficult to get the van out (by difficult, we mean it too an hour of pushing, rocking, tossing straw in the mud, and having a final timely tow), but we still made it just in time for the tour of the dinosaur site.
The morning started a bit rocky, because all the rain meant that it was difficult to get the van out (by difficult, we mean it too an hour of pushing, rocking, tossing straw in the mud, and having a final timely tow), but we still made it just in time for the tour of the dinosaur site.
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