John K Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 My friend, who I fondly refer to as "The Troll" (that's him in my avatar, on the left...), made a couple donations to the local Universities collection recently (last year, I think...) The Troll is now living in Montana, and does a lot of collecting, but he (along with myself) is an alumni of the UW-River Falls, which actually has a very nice Earth Science program, including a very good Paleontology program (under Prof. Mike Middleton, if that rings any bells...) Anyway, The Troll and a friend of his made a nice pleisiosaur find, which they donated to the University, which includes most of the spinal column, in pretty good condition, along with a couple of the paddles. All I got photos of were the verts, as the paddles were rolling around in a box, and there was a class coming in, so I didn't have time to put them together: Word is, they were going to go back out this spring to look for the head; they were hoping it was going to be one of the few ever found. I haven't heard whether or not they found anything. Prof Mike also showed me a fairly complete Hell Creek Triceratops vert that another student had found and donated back to the school: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOROPUS Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 My friend, who I fondly refer to as "The Troll" (that's him in my avatar, on the left...), made a couple donations to the local Universities collection recently (last year, I think...) The Troll is now living in Montana, and does a lot of collecting, but he (along with myself) is an alumni of the UW-River Falls, which actually has a very nice Earth Science program, including a very good Paleontology program (under Prof. Mike Middleton, if that rings any bells...)Anyway, The Troll and a friend of his made a nice pleisiosaur find, which they donated to the University, which includes most of the spinal column, in pretty good condition, along with a couple of the paddles. All I got photos of were the verts, as the paddles were rolling around in a box, and there was a class coming in, so I didn't have time to put them together: WOW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkchaser Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Wow. He's a better man that me -- I would have kept them. RAWR! I am zeee dead bobcat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irradiatus Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 So awesome. I think my fossil-related goal in life is to someday find anything of scientific importance that I can donate to someone who will study it! "The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. " - Douglas Adams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 "The Troll"; must be a story behind that nickname... "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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