Cincinnati Museum Center's Dinosaur Field School invites all those with a passion for paleontology to spend a week digging for real dinosaurs dig! Participants int eh weeklong sessions travel to the northwestern flank of the Bighorn Mountains in south-central Montana to learn to extract dinosaur fossils from rock using hand tools, how to gather and document field data and how to “field jacket” the fossils in burlap and plaster for shipment to the museum.
Monday, July 17, 2006
Photos from the 2005 Dinosaur Field School
The dig site in Montana.
Making a plaster jacket in the field.
Glenn Storrs picks away the stone from Diplodocus vertebrae and ribs.
Skin impressions left in the rock from Diplodocus.
The dig site in Montana. 
Making a plaster jacket in the field.
Glenn Storrs picks away the stone from
Skin impressions left in the rock from Diplodocus.
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