Remember this? The pictures that are "just the way the cookie crumble?"
This is the result of a lot of glue, a fair bit of time, some patience, and removing all of the fragments which are now lovingly sorted by what part of the vertebrae they are from in hopes of being able to rebuild the rest of the bones.
That being said, you may notice that the box with the loose pieces is not shown. Well... yeah. It's not much to look at.
Turns out a couple of the pieces (for example, the longest fragment in the old picture) are ribs. Rhino ribs have a divet up near the vertebrae, and so they're relatively distinct. I also noticed that the vertebrae are heart shaped. A younger me would have been really excited about that... and I've gotta say they still look pretty cool. Turns out that there are bony plates between the vertebrae, possibly indicating that the owner was a juvenile; these should have fused later in life.
So we shall see if Rick sees this as worth piecing back together. Reminds me of the repair work I did on the hadrosaur, Nancy, back home, only that involved several shelves of fragments and pieces kind of everywhere because it was being cleaned by multiple people. Here we go again!
You're funny.
ReplyDeleteIn comparison to Nancy, this one will be a piece of cake, right?
DeleteOk. time to stop with the food puns and satisfy my apparently hungry stomach....