most of these bones here that you see were collected by jim jensen. we are still preparing bones that he collected. we are still studying them. some of these things are still laying in a plaster jacket that we collected while we were out in the field. the bone is petrified. that means it is somewhat turned to rock. that does not mean it is all rock. some of these bones are as soft as graham crackers. it takes a special care to stabilize and glue these bones together. in addition, these bones are all fractured up and placed in the -- or in into the rock the rock itself. it is our job to take the rock away and to keep the bone in its best condition as we can. these bones have gone through a very diverse history. some of these animals, when they died they rotted. they were scavenged on. they were trampled on. history thatt of goes on in these bones. those are just some of the studies we do here. some of these very large loans, like you see here, we have one neck vertebrae of a supersaurus. a lot of this bone is smashed. it is because the stones were noma

most of these bones here that you see were collected by jim jensen. we are still preparing bones that he collected. we are still studying them. some of these things are still laying in a plaster jacket that we collected while we were out in the field. petrified. that means it is somewhat turned to rock. that does not mean it is all rock. some of these bones are as soft as graham crackers. totakes a special care stabilize and glue these bones together. in addition, these bones are all fractured up and placed in the matrix or rock itself. it is our job to take the rockaway and to keep the bone in its best condition as we can. these bones have gone through a very diverse history. some of these animals, when they died they rotted. they were scavenged on. they were trampled on. they were washed down streams and broken further in some cases. there is a lot of history that goes on in these bones. those are some of the studies we do here. some of these large, very large bones like you see right here -- we have got one neck vertebrae of a supersaurus. a lot of