MY FATHER, a geologist, spent the summer helping to unearth a triceratops. He’s been volunteering on and off at an active excavation in central Wyoming ever since he retired from the oil and gas fields. My dad is a man of few words, even in our very active family group texts. But starting in July, a wave of messages started to roll in.
Today I found a sacrum bone.
In the mesaverde foundation.
Found and excavated this rib bone from a Triceratops.
Here’s part of the skull of a triceratops I found.
Sometimes there was a photo. Most of them just looked like dirt with something sharp
