Dated expedition logs, dig-site reports and photo journals from active and past seasons — written by the paleontologists, sedimentologists and graduate students who actually got their boots dirty.
After three days of overburden removal, team lead Dr. Amara Voss called the team in at first light. What looked like another concretion turned out to be the proximal end of a small theropod femur, still articulated with two caudal vertebrae. We spent 11 hours on a single plaster jacket — and it was worth every minute.
Read the full dispatchDated reports from teams working in the field right now — Morocco, Patagonia, the Gobi, Wyoming and a couple of surprises. Updated weekly during northern-hemisphere field season.
Dr. Idris Bennani's team used a Planet Labs mosaic to relocate a 110-meter trackway first spotted in 2019 — and found three more alongside it.
An unexpected bonus during a sedimentology transect — a near-complete Lystrosaurus cranium, still in articulation after 250 million years of winter.
A practical walkthrough of the $1,800 rig our Patagonia team built this winter — and the GCP strategy that finally got our models under 3 cm/pixel.
The first vertebrate recovered this season from our new "recovery" quarry — and a useful reminder that the post-impact world was already rich.
After two failed attempts, our prep lab landed on a contrast protocol that lets us see the bone outline through 4 cm of iron-cemented sandstone.
Final week dispatch from our longest-running southern-hemisphere site — a summary of what we shipped home, what stayed in the ground, and what's next.
More than 380 dated field logs going back to 1998 — filter by region, geological period, or what kind of work a team is doing.
Six active quarries across four continents. Pins update as teams move between localities; numbers correspond to the season cards on the right.
Late Cretaceous. Lead: Dr. Amara Voss. 7 weeks. Theropod + hadrosaur material, K-Pg boundary work.
Late Cretaceous. Lead: Dr. Lucía Mendez. Final season. Titanosaur appendicular elements.
Mid-Cretaceous. Lead: Dr. Idris Bennani. 5 weeks. Spinosaurid cranial fragments and trackway mapping.
Late Jurassic. Lead: Dr. Henrik Vogel. 4 weeks. Pterosaur soft-tissue preservation study.
Late Cretaceous. Lead: Dr. Tsetsgee Erdene. 6 weeks. Velociraptor + oviraptorid nesting site revisit.
Oligocene–Miocene. Lead: Dr. Hannah O'Brien. 8 weeks. Mammalian post-crania and paleoecology.
A rotating roster of staff researchers, postdocs, graduate students and trained volunteers. Most posts are first-person; we edit for clarity and length, not voice.
Vertebrate Paleontologist
15 seasons in the Williston Basin. Specialist in theropod post-cranial anatomy and K-Pg boundary survivorship.
Lead, Patagonia Program
CONICET researcher, sauropod limb biomechanics. Closing her 11-year Cerro Bandera project this season.
Ichnology Lead
Tracks, traces, and remote sensing. Co-author of the 2022 Atlas foothills trackway atlas.
Paleoecologist
Specialist in Cenozoic mammal communities and stable-isotope paleoecology. Riversleigh field lead since 2019.
Mongolia Program Lead
Institute of Paleontology, Ulaanbaatar. Nesting-site taphonomy and small theropod systematics.
Preparator-in-Chief
20 years at the Solnhofen quarries. Our go-to voice on lab methods, contrast agents, and CT scanning.
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