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North Sulfur River 4/27 Fossil Dark Thirty It’s a long hike in and a long hike out. The hike in takes stamina, the hike out takes endurance. For me, the fossil hunt is an all-day adventure. I’m packin’ a lunch along w/a couple gallons of water and a bunch of checklist stuff; the backpack ain’t light. On this day, I planned to go up the creek further than any time before. I don’t think about the fossils, whether I’m gonna find them or not. My main concern is safety - avoiding the slip-fall, trip-fall, snakes, wild hogs, quick-sand and creek bank mud slides. My goal is to get in and out of there in one piece. When I got to Checkpoint Charlie, there was an invisible boundary. I knew every step forward from that point was into unknown territory. It was dead silent. No thoughts . . . just the next step. I look up the creek. No footprints or signs anyone had been there before. Everything was absolutely pristine, it was like I was walking in a burial ground . . . spooky. The time was now but I was walking in the Cretaceous, 90 million years ago. Chills went up my spine. I advanced forward, slowly and surely, each step cautious and deliberate. Each step an important one. I hear a raptor chirp. I looked up and there it was, the first fossil. I see it, stand my ground, take off my pack, lay down the walking stick, take off the gloves and take out the camera. I walk up to the fossil, scan the area in each direction looking for more fossils . . . I take the pictures, pick up the fossil, tag it and bag it. I thank the raptor for its chirp. Lookin’ for the next one. Within an hour or so I find five fossils. Around noon or so I find a spot to rest and eat lunch. I take two aspirin and two ibuprofen because I know the hike out is gonna be long and difficult. I take a look at the map, consider my location and how long it’s gonna take to get back. I go another quarter mile or so before I turn back. I’m thinkin’ it’s a long hike out, and partly uphill. I need to get outta here before dark thirty. I head back, I notice my footprints on the other side of the creek. I don’t think much about the fossils, just gettin’ in and out of there in one piece.
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Shuvuuia: Extraordinary Dinosaurs That Hunted in the Dark
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Shuvuuia: Extraordinary Dinosaurs That Hunted in the Dark University Of The Witwatersrand, SciTech Daily, May 7, 2021 The paper is: Choiniere, J.N., Neenan, J.M., Schmitz, L., Ford, D.P., Chapelle, K.E.J., Balanoff, A.M., Sipla, J.S., Georgi, J.A., Walsh, S.A., Norell, M.A. and Xu, X., 2021. Evolution of vision and hearing modalities in theropod dinosaurs. Science. Yours, Paul H.- 1 reply
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