A team of scientists and artists transformed a jumble of bones entombed in tons of rock into a towering dinosaur that will leave visitors to L.A.'s Natural History Museum wonderstruck.
A team of scientists and artists transformed a jumble of bones entombed in tons of rock into a towering dinosaur that will leave visitors to L.A.'s Natural History Museum wonderstruck.dinosaur, swinging your enormously long tail across your Jurassic world for 70 or so years. Then you die—but in such extraordinary circumstances that, against all odds, your bones are buried and transformed over time into stone. Mountains rise and wear away around you. Rivers come and go.
Among other routine hazards at the dig site, mountain lions left their tracks in the dirt, and rattlesnakes sometimes sheltered under tarps. On one occasion a lightning bolt hit the top of a nearby bluff, and a lone juniper tree burst into flame. People scattered for shelter. The L.A. museum’s scientific illustrator at the dig, Stephanie Abramowicz, devoted days to making a detailed map of the “dinosaur logjam” buried at the bottom of an ancient river.
“Each jacket can be a quarry unto itself,” says Goodreau. Bones, teeth, and other bits must be patiently mined from the matrix. Work on one pelvis, and on bones discovered alongside it, took the better part of a year. As many as six preparators at a time worked to expose fine details, using miniature jackhammers called zip scribes and micro-sandblasters called air abraders. It sounded, says Goodreau, like a beehive buzzing.
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