Uncovering a specimen for the first time
in seventy five million years is a pretty
exciting experience.
Thats part of what 
excites me I guess is
that you do get to go 
out in the field and you
get to prod around 
all these great hills
around Montana 
and find dinosaurs.
Egg Mountain's a very interesting
place to look for dinosaurs the main
fascination is that it's a 
place that preserved dinosaur eggs.
Its pry the richest egg 
locality in Montana and 
what's really interesting about a place were 
dinosaurs have laid eggs is thats the place
were they were
doing their thing. They
created the nest, they deposit the 
eggs, so we can really get a sense of how
dinosaurs lived by studying 
a place like Egg Mountain.
So this is an old site 
that Jack Horner found a 
Dromaeosaur in and what we're doing now is
sort of going back and seeing what else has
eroded out over the years.
And we did find a couple
pieces of the foot,
which is sort of promising.
He didn't find the original, 
the entire full skeleton so were
hoping to find the rest of it here.
So part of our project is to
kind of clean up all the stuff thats
maybe eroded out over the years.
I think the advantage of the paleo 
field camp is that we are emphasizing
the scientific aspects of data collecting. 
Not just excavating a specimen 
but how you collect data,
how you interpret data.
Its discovering,
it's here, it's accessible, so we don't
have to get in a spaceship and fly to Mars
to try to discover things.
We can do it right here, 
Montana's just a beautiful place for that.
The geology here of course is some of the
best in world for paleontological
research, and 
there's nothing like that feeling of
getting into a
quarry,
opening it up, and finding that bit of
bone sticking out and you start cleaning
it off and you start 
working back into the wall.
Maybe the teeth then start showing up and
for several moments, really for about
as long as you can keep your excitement to
yourself.
You are the only human being that
has ever seen this material.
