Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 5, 2009 13:31:53 GMT -5
My loving wife gave me the best birthday gift! A trip to the "Black Hills" in South Dakota. We made a visit to this dino and fossil museum,all I can say is OH MY GOD and HOLY MOLY!!!!! I was in fossil heaven for hours that day!!! If ever your close to Hill City,SD,make a trip to this surprising museum........Its well worth the effort! wanted to gold pan(but to cold),did find some quartz.... Here is my URl to the pic,(to many to post) ha ha............Enjoy... Ok,finally have them downloaded on my computer.Will share the Url with you........... To many pics to post,so its better this way..............Also bare with me,I'm not finished with the identification's yet.... s29.photobucket.com/albums/c266/fossilman01/Black%20Hills%20Fossils/
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Post by texaswoodie on Oct 5, 2009 15:40:09 GMT -5
You have your album password protected. You will have to make it public before we can see it.
Curt
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 5, 2009 16:12:46 GMT -5
See if that works............
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Post by NDK on Oct 5, 2009 21:24:40 GMT -5
The album works for me. I'm not all that into fossils, but that looks like one heck of a museum. Definitely worth while to see. Thanks for showing us the highlites.
Nate
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Post by wyobrian on Oct 6, 2009 22:15:22 GMT -5
very cool Brian
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Post by texaswoodie on Oct 8, 2009 16:52:08 GMT -5
Works like a charm now. That is an amazing amount of A1 fossils! Curt
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Post by Slydog on Oct 8, 2009 19:41:55 GMT -5
"Hill City Sue" used to be there before the big lawsuit--I honestly don't remember 'where' she ended up. 'Sue' was a terrific dino skeleton, and the federal gvt. had her yanked from Hill City. Guns and lawyers were involved. Does anyone know where Sue is now? I love Hill City, lots of fun in the summer Nona
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 9, 2009 5:53:18 GMT -5
As for "Sue" Chicago got the bid on her...Glad she stayed in the states!!! Now its "Stan" that rules Hill City............Not as big as Sue,but a cool dino..............
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 9, 2009 5:57:27 GMT -5
T. rex named Sue taking shape in Chicago Skull of "Sue" the T. rex In this story:
In a new, state-of-the-art glass laboratory at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, a Tyrannosaurus rex known as "Sue" is beginning to take shape. Again.
About 90 percent of the 65-million-year-old dinosaur's skeleton was discovered in 1990, making it by far the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever recovered.
So prized was it that the skeleton sold at auction last October for $8.36 million.
"I think the real importance of the specimen is its completeness and the fact that it ended up in the public domain," says Olivier Rieppel, a paleontologist at the museum.
The T. rex was discovered near the town of Faith, South Dakota, in 1990. A woman named Sue Hendrickson -- hence the dinosaur's name -- discovered the bones while walking on a Cheyenne River Reservation ranch owned by Maurice Williams.
The fossils were excavated by Peter Larson, who planned to make them the centerpiece of his own museum. But disputes over who was the rightful owner of the skeleton led the FBI to raid Larson's museum in 1992 and seize the bones.
The rights to the bones were eventually restored to Williams, who decided to sell them through an auction at Sotheby's in New York.
Killed by another T. rex? The bones arrived in New York last fall in 130 crates and boxes amid fears that a precious piece of science could disappear from public view into a private collection.
Restoration of the fossil is on view to the public Sotheby's estimated that the fossil would sell for about $1 million, and opened the bidding at $500,000.
But in a matter of moments the bidding skyrocketed to the $8.36 million -- including a 10 percent commission for the auction house -- offered by The Field Museum.
The museum's partners in the bidding included McDonald's Ronald McDonald House Charities, Walt Disney World Resorts, the California State University system and private individuals.
McDonald's also contributed to the McDonald's Fossil Preparation Laboratory at the museum, where visitors can watch through a glass wall as workers continue the painstaking work of putting Sue back together.
Scientists say that in the process, they have learned a lot about her.
A tooth fragment from a rival T. rex was embedded in her rib, and scientists suspect that a gouge on the side of her skull may be the wound that caused her death.
They also found that her lower left jaw was crushed, and that she had a broken leg as well.
Claw weighs 2 pounds While most T. rex skeletons are only about 40 to 50 percent complete, Sue is 50 feet long and virtually whole. One toe claw weighs 2 pounds.
"Since it is so unique and important a specimen, we'll have to mount it in a way that the bones can be removed for scientific study," says Rieppel.
"Sue" is carefully cleaned by lab workers Sue will command her own exhibit.
"We need an extraordinary gallery, about 40 feet in height and of great length," says Willard White, the museum's vice president. "And a whole exhibit interpreting Sue and her era."
It will be two years before museum workers have Sue back together again. And for those who can't make it to Chicago, McDonald's and Walt Disney World Resorts are each having replicas made.
One will go on display in Florida, and the other will go on a tour of the United States.
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Post by Roger on Oct 9, 2009 16:30:43 GMT -5
That is a great place Neil Larson is a friend and loves to hunt.You wouldn't believe the things they have in the basement.plus I sold the Williams a new Lincoln after the settlement$$ The Larson are real nice people.
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 10, 2009 7:46:14 GMT -5
That is a great place Neil Larson is a friend and loves to hunt.You wouldn't believe the things they have in the basement.plus I sold the Williams a new Lincoln after the settlement$$ The Larson are real nice people. I always wonder whats in a basement when I visit places like this........probably be just as interested as the stuff thats on display.............. As for the Larson brothers I give them a "salute" for the crap the government put them through! I read the stories about them and the ones they wrote,my hats off to them two brothers...........
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Post by montanamuskrat on Oct 16, 2009 1:27:59 GMT -5
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 16, 2009 8:02:45 GMT -5
I would love to hit the Fort Peck one,that do some serious fishing there...........Lived in Montana over 27 years,never did go there........
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Post by rockingthenorth on Feb 28, 2012 18:31:47 GMT -5
I was there a couple of years ago but didn't go into the museum. was rockhuting and didn't bring enough money for everyone to go in. spent some time in the gift shop though it was awesome.
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