Preparation of Zuul crurivastator

[Troodon]

Another photo photo from Shino

 

Comments from Dave Evans

"What lies beneath Dino Zuul? As we continue to prepare the layer below Zuul’s body, we are finding more theropod fossils, limb bones."

 

 

Dave Evans shared this photo of the prepped body

 

Evans posted this National Geographic photo of body being prepped

[Phevo]

That is spectacular

[rebu]

Amazing, this is taking fossil prepping to completely another level. 

[jpc]

Yeah... Wow!!!!

[Troodon]

8 minutes ago, jpc said:

Yeah... Wow!!!!

Hey you would need a little more room in your home prep lab to handle this badboy.

[Ptychodus04]

I watched Ghostbusters last night with one of my sons and couldn’t help but think about this thread.

[TyBoy]

1 hour ago, Ptychodus04 said:

I watched Ghostbusters last night with one of my sons and couldn’t help but think about this thread.

Ha ha .  The ROM certainly picked the perfect name coupled with the hype to attract folks to their museum 

[Troodon]

Did you know?

 

David Evans posted this:

A detail of Zuul’s ossicles. Some ankylosaurids have hundreds of thousands of tiny little osteoderms that cover most of the body- kinda like bony chain mail armor

 

[Mark Kmiecik]

Just got to this thread today. I must say: "Holy cow Batman!" That is beyond awesome.

[Troodon]

Have not posted any updates for a long while, just saw one from one of the prep team member.

 

Amelia Madill : This is the (almost) finished armor of Zuul.

 

 

Person in the photo is 20 weeks pregnant with twins...good time to wrap it up.

[hadrosauridae]

absolutely amazing!

[Ptychodus04]

Preps like this sure help you have an understanding of the massive size of these bio-tanks.

[Troodon]

Recently posted by D. Evans

 

Leaf found during preparation.  It washed in not eaten

 

 

Some closeups

 

[Ludwigia]

Humongeous!

[FossilNerd]

Thanks @Troodon for the update. I had not seen this thread yet. What a marvelous specimen and a monumental prep task!

 

Hats off to the folks who dug it up and those preparing it!  

[Top Trilo]

I too have not seen this thread and all I have to say is Wow, an amazing specimen that took 8 years to get out of the ground and then being prepped by amazing preparators for 3 years now and still some time left. Wow 

[LabRatKing]

I have no clue what is going on in this thread, but I saw Zuul in the feed so I felt inclined to say:

 

”Are you the key master?”

 

[Troodon]

Shino Sugimoto posted these throwback photos.

 

[LabRatKing]

On 12/17/2017 at 7:48 AM, Fruitbat said:

Is that actually Dan Aykroyd with Zuul in the picture above?

 

 

-Joe

That is scientific gold. Would only be made better by Rick Moranis being present.

[LabRatKing]

8 hours ago, Troodon said:

Shino Sugimoto posted these throwback photos.
  

So no one crossed the streams, eh?

[fossilsonwheels]

Awesome to see the progress. Thank you Frank for keeping us updated. One of my favorite dinos  :)

 

 

[Bonehunter]

On 2/21/2019 at 6:28 AM, Troodon said:

Another photo photo from Shino

 

Comments from Dave Evans

"What lies beneath Dino Zuul? As we continue to prepare the layer below Zuul’s body, we are finding more theropod fossils, limb bones."

 

 

Dave Evans shared this photo of the prepped body

 

Evans posted this National Geographic photo of body being prepped

I'm going to have to get bigger needles!!!!! WOWOOWOOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!!!!!    Bone

[Sjfriend]

Love the last photo. Really shows scale!

[Troodon]

Dave Evans commented "The extreme asymmetry is a unique trait for this particular individual, and makes this Zuul extra special"

 

 

 

Caudal Vertebrae are BIG

[RJB]

Just wow!  This is sooooooo interesting it hurts!   I was going through this thread and thought to myself how super cool it would be to prep something like this until I saw the photo of the guy laying on it while prepping.  That really put it into perspective in a preparators point of view.   This is an outstanding find and prep job!!!

 

RB