Trust: these bad days will be in the past of a better future!

You’re OK! Hugs!

😆amazing! That’s it exactly!

Outstanding rediscovery!
Until I enlarged the image, all I could see was a happy little skull!

Looking forward to reading this new pterosaur study, and fitting that while driving home this afternoon I caught this pterosaur-shaped cloud over Chicago!😎

No, you’ll find the paper remarks that the artwork is tentatively depicting the head display but the new mummies don’t have that part preserved… Here’s to finding more mummies now that this type of preservation is better understood as possible!

I can just see from that smile what’s in home iguana’s imagination right now!:

Fantastic support shell! Not easy- well done!!

I’m using a “Chicago pneumatic”, a workhorse engraving pen, not built for fossil prep technically, but widely adopted in the past- though now more options exist from a few companies that are more $$ but built for the purpose. We use a range for different tasks! 🦴

Another repair I made at that same time (’99-‘00) to the ribs of the defeated Lambeosaurus…after a visitor apparently climbed over the railing & onto the mount to pose for a photo! Mainly cracked plaster filler on bent armatures, which I filled & painted to match with Bill Simpson‘s guidance

The ramp was so close to the Apatosaurus that visitors could reach over the wall and grab the tail: here I am in ‘99 or ‘00 repairing a caudal that was snapped by a visitor (after receiving how-to instructions from Bill Simpson in Geology) back when I was on Exhibits Maintenance staff

Natural bristles from a brush glued onto snout, trimmed and painted for a subtle fuzzy display…I think it’s done! I‘ll add some final thoughts on my new Cyonosaurus sculpture in a follow up thread next-