Well, after years of wrangling and bureaucratic red tape, our dinosaur is finally on its way from Argentina. Honestly, I had given up much hope that it would ever come, but it will be here soon - as early as this this weekend. It is scheduled to arrive in the Port of Philadelphia aboard the Captain San Lorenzo on Sunday. Finally! The only bad news is that since we have years of work ahead of us just to prepare this one specimen, and since the government has made it nearly impossible for anyone to take a fossil out of Argentina, we almost certainly won't be going back there next year and possibly for a while. We're not giving up on our field work there - we'll just probably avoid enormous dinosaurs and set up our own prep lab down there. The good news is that there's talk of an expedition to Egypt sometime in the next year or 2.
The other good news is that the exhibit I've been working on so hard the last 7 - 8 months is finally nearly finished and opened this past Friday. I heard nothing but very positives responses. I haven't decided if I'll post portions of it continuously on this blog for everyone to see, but I'm sure I'll post something. For starters, here's our logo.
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