Bosco's RockPile
Bob Boscarelli at the Shell, Wyoming quarry with the excavator

Fossil Excavation & Field Photography Gallery

Field photography from two decades of excavations and earth-science fieldwork.

A curated selection of photography from the archive — field work, specimens, and the landscapes they came from.

Sarah / Sophie — The Stegosaurus, Shell, Wyoming

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Beginning of the Sarah/Sophie Stegosaurus excavation, Shell, Wyoming.
Beginning of the Sarah/Sophie Stegosaurus excavation, Shell, Wyoming.
Early in the dig — first bone elements exposed.
Early in the dig — first bone elements exposed.
First dermal plates exposed at the quarry.
First dermal plates exposed at the quarry.
Stegosaurus limb bones in situ.
Stegosaurus limb bones in situ.
The thagomizer — tail spikes — in situ.
The thagomizer — tail spikes — in situ.
Excavating Sarah the Stegosaurus, Shell, Wyoming. (Photo by Dani Boscarelli.)
Excavating Sarah the Stegosaurus, Shell, Wyoming. (Photo by Dani Boscarelli.)
Bob Simon and Don Pfister watching rancher John Ed Anderson fly over the quarry in his plane — Shell, Wyoming, 2004. (Photo by Bosco.)
Bob Simon and Don Pfister watching rancher John Ed Anderson fly over the quarry in his plane — Shell, Wyoming, 2004. (Photo by Bosco.)

Sauropods — Shell, Wyoming

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Shell, Wyoming dig site — Morrison Formation.
Shell, Wyoming dig site — Morrison Formation.
Quarry work, Shell, Wyoming.
Quarry work, Shell, Wyoming.
Sauropod element exposed in Morrison sandstone, Shell WY, 2007.
Sauropod element exposed in Morrison sandstone, Shell WY, 2007.
Camarasaurus sp. in situ — Shell, Wyoming, 2007.
Camarasaurus sp. in situ — Shell, Wyoming, 2007.
Camarasaurus sp. — articulated skeleton in situ, Shell WY, 2007.
Camarasaurus sp. — articulated skeleton in situ, Shell WY, 2007.

Como Bluff, Wyoming

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Bosco with Dr. Robert T. Bakker at Como Bluff, Wyoming.
Bosco with Dr. Robert T. Bakker at Como Bluff, Wyoming.
Bosco with ‘Bertha,’ a massive sauropod pubis at Como Bluff.
Bosco with ‘Bertha,’ a massive sauropod pubis at Como Bluff.
Bosco at Como Bluff — a sauropod bone in the quarry face.
Bosco at Como Bluff — a sauropod bone in the quarry face.

Earth Science & Wildlife

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The 1989 Loma Prieta quake (M6.9) recorded on David Reynolds' hand-built seismograph — Bosco's father-in-law.
The 1989 Loma Prieta quake (M6.9) recorded on David Reynolds' hand-built seismograph — Bosco's father-in-law. The recorder was knocked off its shelf mid-quake, tearing the tape; labeled in his hand.
David Reynolds' hand-built seismograph — its moving-coil sensor in the Soquel basement.
David Reynolds' hand-built seismograph — its moving-coil sensor in the Soquel basement. Bosco installed his own EQ-1 educational seismograph here in 2002.
Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii), Soquel, California.
Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii), Soquel, California.

Photographs © Robert "Bosco" Boscarelli except where credited otherwise. All rights reserved. His images are available for licensing — research, publication, and museum use.

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Handmade at the RockPile

Handmade sterling-silver jewelry, cut and set at the bench by the same hands that work the quarry. Every piece is one of a kind; when it is gone there is no second one. No vertebrate fossil material is ever sold.

See the work at cyberzoic.com → The silversmithing story →