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Dinosaur Dispatch

Follow a paleontology team as their dinosaur dig gets underway in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin

  • By Michelle Coffey
  • Smithsonian.com, July 03, 2008

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    Our destination: Camp in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin

    Dinosaur Dispatch

    Explore photos from the Bighorn Basin in north central Wyoming


    Dinosaur Dispatch: Day 1

    Michelle Coffey

    Michelle Coffey moves from biology class to the Bighorn Basin and prepares for her first dinosaur dig

    Dinosaur Dispatch: Days 3 and 4

    Michelle Coffey

    The paleontology team is finally in place. After setting up camp, the dig begins. Fossils are found and dinosaur tracks investigated

    Dinosaur Dispatch: Days 6, 7 and 8

    Michelle Coffey

    The team survives the Death March dig and makes an essential stop in Thermopolis

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