Week Three: Workin' Hard

Our third week at the museum has been an adventure! We are gradually picking up speed and becoming more familiar with the motions involved in rehousing, cataloguing, and databasing these incredible specimens. Every fossil is unique, and we have enjoyed this opportunity to inspect (in detail, over and over again) and admire them. Additionally, we have finally mastered the art of multitasking: we now handle the Mapes collection to the sweet sounds of the "My Favorite Murder" podcast, as well as NPR when that gets a little hard to handle (and music when the news is too hard to handle).
On Wednesday, we got an AWESOME tour of Exhibits by Dina Langis (thanks again Dina, it was amazing!!) and learned about the backstage work needed to create our favorite exhibits. We had the honor of being clued in to some top-secret future exhibit plans (if I told you, I'd have to kill you, and I didn't make that rule, I'm just an intern).

 The only snuffleupagus in the museum's collection that we know of

Here are some of my personal favorite brachiopods (and possible mollusks) that I've come across, images of which were taken under the scope:

These fit on the tip of my finger! Fossils from the Missourian


The beautiful rings of a fossilized brachiopod shell

A creepy ghost-looking thing on the back of a shell. Forward to 5 friends or it will be in ur room 2nite!!!

We also found an unexpected "specimen" in a cabinet: this rodent jaw bone (not a fossil)

Yum!!!

Look at these interns! Amazing

Thank you for the heavy lifting, Carl! And thank you even more for the inspirational artwork:

Ha.

Until next time!


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