Lead Paleontologist at Petrified Forest National Park, Crohn’s survivor, PhD, recovering Hoosier, Arby's enthusiast. Personal account, opinions are my own.

Holbrook, AZ
Joined April 2009
We're just a biological speculation Sittin' here, vibratin' And we don't know what we're vibratin' about And the animal instinct in me Makes me wanna defend me It makes me want to live when it's time to die
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pub date is in the future but PDF is available! Congrats to @VTechmeetsPaleo undergrad Denycè on a great pub!!🦈 bioone.org/journals/palaeodi…
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Too remote to get chilis but still want to donate to an incredible cause? The 37th year of the world’s oldest entirely FREE science festival is just around the corner! If you donate you will receive a FREE drawing of a chili pepper from ME! scifest.charityproud.org/Don…
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The museum seasonal and I have managed to keep things cordial this summer. #bonewars #triassicpark #fossilfriday
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sometimes you just need to flee into the woods
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Finding an hour a day this week to prep this Trilophosaurus vertebra has kept my sanity intact. #triassicpark #fossilfriday
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Sometimes you have to improvise structural support in a field jacket. Here I used a gauge from a broken weather station and a cow radioulna. #fossilfriday #triassicpark
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Pepper’s school picture day!
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anyone want a quiz? who did this belong to?
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top jacket on a smallish phytosaur mandible #fossilfriday #triassicpark
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“fight me/celium”
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happy Free Slurpee Day to all who celebrate
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sometimes life just puts a phytosaur foot in your trench, you dig? #fossilfriday
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wandered off from the quarry yesterday just to find a pelvis and hindlimb of a phytosaur waiting for its turn. Here is the tibia. #fossilfriday #triassicpark
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~2018 I checked a waterline trench for fossils in PEFO’s backcountry and noticed a bone layer that I marked with a screwdriver. Yesterday I revisited the site and found my screwdriver, where I had nearly unknowingly nailed an in-situ dinosaur femur! #fossilfriday #triassicpark
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prep is going well on this femur, it’s more smashed than at first thought but hey, in the Chinle a dinosaur is a dinosaur. #fossilfriday
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Back in the funhouse with a #CrohnsDisease flare, handling with gust rest, IV fluids, and steroids. Reminder to drink water, manage stress, avoid trigger foods, and be mindful of folks who may be battling “invisible” illnesses. – at Flagstaff, AZ
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Thanks to all for kind words and support. Pain + swelling is down, yesterday’s CT still showed narrowing @ 9-yr old surgery site, NG tube staying, prepping for colonoscopy tomorrow to compare w/ what they saw two months ago. Great news is I drank broth for first food since Tues.
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accidentally Tykoski’d myself this morning @Paleo_Tykoski
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I won’t apologize for being the guy who splits the discarded bone layer to find the tiny fish and reptile jaws. #fossilfriday #triassicpark
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you’re always a short wander away from amazing things at Petrified Forest National Park
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