Dave Hone

Because if we know a whole bunch of stuff washed together, maybe that's a random bone from a different animal.

Yeah, maybe that was eaten or there might be a different story if it was washed.

Any of that kind of thing.

So that's where you want to have as much information as possible.

Yeah.

So there's this unbelievably beautiful skeleton.

Boreal Pelter.

This is a helicopter lift.

Absolutely phenomenal preservation from Northern Alberta.

Its full name is Boreal Pelter Mark Mitchell Eye.

And it's called Mark Mitchell Eye, named after Mark Mitchell, the preparator, who basically spent, I think Mark spent the thick end of two years on this.

Like this was his job and he did all the stuff as well.

He's doing some other prep.

He's doing some field work, but Mark basically went in every day, nine to five cleaning the rock because the rock was hard and the bone was soft and it's extraordinarily well preserved.

Yeah.

So Boreal Pelter is one of the ones where we've even got some of the evidence of patterning and it suggests that it's darker on top and lighter underneath.

So this illustration, I think that's, yeah, it's Julius Chitoni did that.

He's a Canadian paleo artist.

And so that color pattern is roughly accurate.

Oh, wow.