Photos from a recent trip to Western KS

[Agriv8r]

cool..

[Captain of the Titanic]

Here are the fins. Note that they are nearly 6 feet each. This is before we plastered them for removal.

[Captain of the Titanic]

Here they are plastered with the two shmucks that spent the day playing in the dirt. The guy on the left is the "real" paleontologist of the group. He is currently finishing his Master's thesis on a bizarre shark from the late cretaceous.

[Captain of the Titanic]

Here's a picture of what they will look like when prepped

(From www.oceansofkansas.com)

[Mr. I - Man]

Awesome pics.

[jmsspratlin]

Very interesting work man...thanks for the pics.

[Captain of the Titanic]

Originally Posted by jmsspratlin

Very interesting work man...thanks for the pics.

I wish it was my work... I stay locked like a prisoner in a corporate penitentary. Monday through Friday I am a Large Systems IT Consultant. On the weekends I do the fossil thing. I am a little more rabid than the average hobbiest, and hunt about 40 days a year, luckily I live in Dallas which is virtually covered in fossils.

I have donated specimens to the Sternberg Museum in Hays, KS; the Sam Noble museum at OU, and SMU here in Dallas. So far I have 3 new species named after me, which are part of a collection of material I donated to the Sam Noble museum. I will soon have a wierd fish skull on display at the Sternberg museum. It's a swordfish, but the bill protrudes from the LOWER jaw. Very rare and very strange.

I don't try to make money off the fossils. I would hate for it to become work, although I do take a pretty hefty tax deduction off the stuff I donate to museums and to the kids programs at the museums.

Who knows, maybe it makes up for being a Worthless Piece of Crap Hummer Driver!!!