Today was an exciting day! We went dinosaur hunting! There are all sorts of rules to follow... so if you are ever in Montana, don't just go anywhere to look for bones! To be able to keep them, you have to find them on private property. Obviously, you can't go in just anybody's yard to find them! You'll get shot in no time. If you find bones on public land, you can not keep them, they belong to the state.
We found a farmer that has a very large property which happens to have a section where you can find all sorts of things. They bring you out, show you what to do, help you to identify if it's rocks or fossil and you get to keep what you find, unless it's part of a T-rex and some other dinosaur that I can't remember the name... "somethingsaaurus" 😆.
Our tools consisted of a screwdriver to dig and a bbq brush to brush. We each got a bag with varied size bags and some tin foil to wrap the more fragile bones.
We had a fantastic day looking for, digging for and excavating our finds. Everyone found something!
- Sophie found lots of turtle bits and a bone so she was on the turtle hunt.
- I found lots of bits and pieces of bones, crocodilian teeth and alligator tooth, and a large bone that I will need to clean and re puzzle parts of it back together.
- Rémi found a nice bone as well that he had to dig out, put some stuff on it so it would sorta stick together, wrap it in foil, turn it over gently and finish wrapping.
After digging, the rancher brought us to a dried up creek to find some agatised wood. We found some nice specimens where you can see the layers the tree would've had.
Our excursion was supposed to be 4 hours - we ended up being there 8 hours. It was well worth it even though it was 41ºC and no shade to be found anywhere.
After our exciting day, we drove to Bismark North Dakota where we will spend the night.
Farm animals: You guessed it! Cows! horses, sheep, cat, dog
Wild animals: chipmunk, mule deer
Road kill: snake and what looked like an opossum but they even live here so not sure what it was.
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