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Photos of it in the ground, photos of it covered in plaster.. no photos of the actual skull itself. Frustrating.

by steve19 10y ago

zacharycohn 10y ago
It can take months or even years to excavate the bones from the rock. Give them some time...
Gargoyle 10y ago
Comments like this make me want to delete my HN browser bookmark. The spirit of it is on nearly every story posted here and it's so very tiring. Note the original comment has been stealth edited. It originally said the scientists were milking this story.
- steve19 10y ago
  You have been a member of HN for a very short period of time. Please read the HN Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - Gargoyle 10y ago
    I've been a member for a very, very long time under various names. I quit from time to time because I get tired of middlebrow dismissal comments.
    - hugh4 10y ago
      Right on.
- nitrogen 10y ago
  It's not on every story I read, so there could be something about the types of stories you favor that draws out the dismissers? I wonder how many clusters of users could be found based on which articles they like to click and comment on.
esaym 10y ago
There are some more photos here: http://www.burkemuseum.org/blog/burke-museum-team-discovers-t-rex http://www.burkemuseum.org/blog/burke-museum-team-discovers-... They no doubt found something. And the location is well documented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Creek_Formation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Creek_Formation We've all been told that fossils are dated by the layer of rock that they are in, and the layer of rock is dated by the fossils that they contain. I've always found that hard to believe. Especially in the case of Hell Creek, where supposedly an entire large area of 65+million year old rock has just been sitting in the open sun light for the last several thousand years. Interesting at least. Perhaps I need to make a trip there and see for myself.
- nitrogen 10y ago
  We've all been told that fossils are dated by the layer of rock that they are in, and the layer of rock is dated by the fossils that they contain. I've always found that hard to believe. AIUI prehistoric dates are corroborated by radioisotopic dating, similarly to using C14 for much more recent dates.
falcolas 10y ago
You don't want it exposed to the elements, the bones are frequently in pieces the size of a penny, and are remarkably fragile. It only follows that they would want to do the really fine work back in the lab. Wrapping in plaster as they remove it from the surrounding rock makes the most sense. Come on up to the Museum of the Rockies, and you can watch the cleanup process and see the output.

Photos of it in the ground, photos of it covered in plaster.. no photos of the actual skull itself. Frustrating.

by steve19 10y ago

Photos of it in the ground, photos of it covered in plaster.. no photos of the actual skull itself. Frustrating.

zacharycohn 10y ago

It can take months or even years to excavate the bones from the rock. Give them some time...

Gargoyle 10y ago

Comments like this make me want to delete my HN browser bookmark. The spirit of it is on nearly every story posted here and it's so very tiring. Note the original comment has been stealth edited. It originally said the scientists were milking this story.

steve19 10y ago
You have been a member of HN for a very short period of time. Please read the HN Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Gargoyle 10y ago
  I've been a member for a very, very long time under various names. I quit from time to time because I get tired of middlebrow dismissal comments.
  - hugh4 10y ago
    Right on.
nitrogen 10y ago
It's not on every story I read, so there could be something about the types of stories you favor that draws out the dismissers? I wonder how many clusters of users could be found based on which articles they like to click and comment on.

esaym 10y ago

There are some more photos here: http://www.burkemuseum.org/blog/burke-museum-team-discovers-t-rex http://www.burkemuseum.org/blog/burke-museum-team-discovers-... They no doubt found something. And the location is well documented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Creek_Formation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Creek_Formation We've all been told that fossils are dated by the layer of rock that they are in, and the layer of rock is dated by the fossils that they contain. I've always found that hard to believe. Especially in the case of Hell Creek, where supposedly an entire large area of 65+million year old rock has just been sitting in the open sun light for the last several thousand years. Interesting at least. Perhaps I need to make a trip there and see for myself.

nitrogen 10y ago
We've all been told that fossils are dated by the layer of rock that they are in, and the layer of rock is dated by the fossils that they contain. I've always found that hard to believe. AIUI prehistoric dates are corroborated by radioisotopic dating, similarly to using C14 for much more recent dates.

falcolas 10y ago

You don't want it exposed to the elements, the bones are frequently in pieces the size of a penny, and are remarkably fragile. It only follows that they would want to do the really fine work back in the lab. Wrapping in plaster as they remove it from the surrounding rock makes the most sense. Come on up to the Museum of the Rockies, and you can watch the cleanup process and see the output.