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The afternoon is all about gathering fossils to carefully get them back to camp before the sun goes down.
3 p.m.
Since time and space are limited and shipping is expensive, the team doesn’t take back just any fossil. In order to make the cut, the fossil needs to give scientists new information about the fossil record.
Amy often helps other people “jacket” their fossils with plaster of Paris.
4 p.m.
Often the scientists don’t really know what’s inside a rock until Amy’s team cleans the specimens back at the Museum. The fossils are carefully stored in labeled specimen bags. Amy keeps track of all the specimens in a logbook.
5 p.m.
Everyone heads back to camp for a Show-and-Tell of the day’s discoveries. Many of the things people find are “nodules”–small chunks of sandstone that contain fossils.
Image Credits:
3pm image, courtesy of AMNH; all other photos, courtesy Discovery Channel Online