Re: Monster find at Hell Creek

["franklin e. bliss" <frank@blissnet.com>]

Yeah, it really can look that way to the average outsider though.   
Rough county.  It's their cauldron of doom though.  Not mine,  I like  
it here.  It was gods country before European man moved here and  
screwed it up.

Excuse my overly active delurking as the first image just looked  
really unnatural to me.  (It was).  The second higher resolution one  
(taken before they messed up the "print") fixed that incorrect  
perspective.  The film showing him messing with the surrounding mud  
was the clincher.

Actually, living on Hell Creek does have it's disadvantages.  Rough  
winters, long fire season (some places have rainy seasons and dry  
seasons, we have fire seasons and mud seasons), there are a few  
rattlers (never seen them dripping though I have fried up a few for  
supper before), scorpions etc.  What I am most intimidated by are the  
140 pound mountain lions that wander here about.  I stick my head  
down in a fossil pit for an hour with my butt sticking up in the air  
advertising to that big kitty. (Sorry for the mental picture  
there!).  Unless I find that new species of pachycephalosaur I know  
is here, the most likely way you will read about my work  
internationally is that big kitty.  "Mountain Lion Eats  
Paleontologist hunting Hell Creek Dinosaurs".  It's easy to make the  
local papers digging triceratops stuff.  You either have to find an  
unidentified muddy foot print or have your butt chewed off by a big  
cat to get in the international rags.  Tough road those Brits. make  
to follow.

Good points of living on Hell Creek Formation:  really short commute  
to work,  longer working year, no travel expenses except keeping your  
ATV serviced, and dozens of fossil sites within a few miles of your  
homestead.  Something new to do every day.  So many fossils, so  
little time.  (I just opened a microsite 600 feet from my front door).

Frank (Rooster) Bliss
MS Biostratigraphy
Weston, Wyoming
www.wyomingdinosaurs.com




On Oct 10, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Danvarner@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 10/10/2007 4:55:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> xrciseguy@sbcglobal.net writes:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7036411.stm
>
> "... the land is so vast, treacherously dripping with rattle snakes  
> and
> scorpions, making the risks of combing every inch of it an  
> impossible  task. "
>
> Oh, brother! We're shoveling it on a wee  bit thick here. Hey  
> Frank, I hope
> you're safe tonight living in your cauldron of  doom. DV
>
>
>
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