From the field
Expeditions
Como Bluff, near Medicine Bow, Wyoming
Como Bluff, Wyoming — Digging With Bakker
Digging the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff, Wyoming — the Bone Wars dinosaur graveyard — with Robert T. Bakker, 1994–1997. Photographs from the quarry.
Shell, Wyoming (DinoSafaris quarry)
Sophie the Stegosaurus Excavation, 2004
Inside the Shell, Wyoming quarry where Sophie the Stegosaurus came out of the ground in 2004 — including the first photograph ever made of the tail spikes.
Red Canyon Ranch, Shell, Wyoming
Camarasaurus — Shell, Wyoming
A two-month excavation of an over-90%-complete Camarasaurus skeleton with healed trauma, later transferred to the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Japan.
Death Valley National Park, California
Death Valley
Reading deep time in the lowest, hottest, driest place in North America — the mineral hues of Artist's Palette, the sailing stones of Racetrack Playa, petroglyphs, salt flats, and a desert in bloom.