Virginia Tech Museum of Geosciences Collections Manager Mariah Green admires the museum’s newest installation, a life-size 3D printed replica of the Tufts-Love T. rex skull. Tours of the museum’s collection was part of a recent Paleo Unwrapping Party.
MATT GENTRY, The Roanoke Times
Christopher Griffin in 2017, excavating part of the Mbiresaurus raathi skeleton, wrapped in a plaster field jacket.
Geosciences major Megan Sodano explains fossil unwrapping and labeling protocols. Sodano was part of the Virginia Tech paleobiology research group that discovered fossils in Arizona and Texas this summer.
An artistic reconstruction of Mbiresaurus raathi in the foreground, with other Zimbabwean animals in the background, including two rhynchosaurs (at front right), an aetosaur (at left), and a herrerasaurid dinosaur chasing a cynodont (at back right).
Fossils were wrapped in tissue paper and foil at the dig site to protect them for shipping to Virginia.
Matt Gentry
Lily Seitz, 11 (left), inspects a fossil she had just unwrapped with Katie Hughes, a volunteer with the Geosciences Paleontology Lab.
MATT GENTRY, The Roanoke Times
A fossilized tooth of a crocodile relative that lived approximately 215 million years ago was just one of many fossils unwrapped Wednesday.
MATT GENTRY, The Roanoke Times
Tours of the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences fossil preparation lab were part of Wednesday's Paleo Unwrapping Party.
BLACKSBURG — A fossilized dinosaur from Africa is one of the earliest and most complete prehistoric remains unearthed by humans so far, said a Virginia Tech alumnus who discovered the bones during fieldwork as a paleontology student.
Virginia Tech Museum of Geosciences Collections Manager Mariah Green admires the museum’s newest installation, a life-size 3D printed replica of the Tufts-Love T. rex skull. Tours of the museum’s collection was part of a recent Paleo Unwrapping Party.
Geosciences major Megan Sodano explains fossil unwrapping and labeling protocols. Sodano was part of the Virginia Tech paleobiology research group that discovered fossils in Arizona and Texas this summer.
An artistic reconstruction of Mbiresaurus raathi in the foreground, with other Zimbabwean animals in the background, including two rhynchosaurs (at front right), an aetosaur (at left), and a herrerasaurid dinosaur chasing a cynodont (at back right).
