Dave Hone

So you can fill your fossil with glue, but then if you want to take all that glue out, you can pretty much just dissolve the glue back out again.

Very cool.

So yeah, what you would normally do is, for something, say, in China...

where the rock is relatively soft and the bones relatively tough and where we don't have any manpower and shipping problems, which is a real issue in other places, you basically map out where you think the skeleton's going.

So in the same way that you were doing it, like, you know, if you can imagine...

like a cake or something.

And someone said, I put a toy dinosaur in there and you've got to find it without damaging it.

So like, well, you'd stick your finger in the cake and just kind of dig until you hit the edge of it.

And then you go in somewhere else and go in.

And that's what we're doing.

We're just going in from kind of all sides.

And once you've hit three or four bones, you kind of know which way it's

it's going into the hillside.

Usually sometimes they're very weird and mixed up.

And then you can just like almost trace the outline of it.

And then you'll just dig all the way around that, which might involve taking the top off a mountain, depending on where you are in the desert.

It tends to be a bit easier, but yeah, we we've had stuff where like the first three days is just 10 people with pickaxes, just digging a hole to get down to the right level.

Yeah, we've used jackhammers and stuff.

We've used a backhoe.

We've just literally driven it into the desert and just dug a big hole next to the fossil.