Re: chicken bones and emu tracks

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

at Amazon.com.....
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0060952261/collectingfossilA/002-4779336-8500436

Make Your Own Dinosaur Out of Chicken Bones : Foolproof Instructions for
Budding Paleontologists
by Christopher McGowan, Chris McGowan, Julian Mulock (Illustrator) 
 Reading level: Ages 9-12
 Paperback - 160 pages Lst Ed. edition (May 1997) 
 HarperCollins (paper); ISBN: 0060952261 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.45
x 9.19 x 7.39 


Ralph Miller III wrote:
> First, I would like to know how to clean and prepare chicken bones from the
> basic fryer so that they can be assembled into a mounted skeleton, one that
> won't attract flies and vermin.  Have any list members attempted this?
> What are the pros and cons of bleaching?  I am entertaining the idea of
> preparing such a mount in order to compare and contrast the skeleton of
> _Gallus_ with that of a non-avian theropod.