Dave Hone

And that's what you want because every so often behind that is a whole skeleton.

If you're looking for skeletons on the surface, they're going to be gone before you get to them.

So it depends where you are.

It depends how many people you've got.

It depends on your budget.

And it really depends on the rock.

So, again, like going into China or Mongolia, where this little guy's from, the bone tends to be relatively strong compared to the sandstone that it's in.

That means that, A, it's fairly tough and resistant.

But it also means that it's really easy to dig.

Like, again, I've dug stuff by almost like pulling it with my hands or like getting my fingers in.

Getting something like a chisel or a hammer, you can just cruise through this rock.

But you have to be really careful not to touch the bone, I guess.

So it depends how strong it is.

So again, some bone is incredibly strong.

Some isn't because they've all fossilized differently.

What we're usually doing is applying glue to it, though.

There's this wonderful stuff called Paraloid, and it's a special glue for fossils.

And as I said, bone's super porous.

So it's really good at sucking up liquids.

Yeah, and Paralloy's really great because you can dissolve it with acetone, and it basically doesn't react with anything.