Skye Walker

Week Six! ✅

Swimming in plaster, Allosaurus limb bones (like this femur!), and jacketing some very cool dinosaurs!

A little late Week 5 recap of field season!

Working on Allosaurus toes, removing probably the biggest sauropod femur we've ever found, and getting ready to plaster some REALLY big jackets!

Week Six is done! ✅

The amount of progress we made in each quarry is unbelievable. As usual, we had some equally unexpected and cool finds made by our hard-working participants. We have some massive jackets coming out next week, so we're super grateful to everyone who helped us with these projects.

Week 4 of field season! ✅

Outreach, old friends, and new discoveries! We have some pretty big things in the works, thanks to our incredible dig sites and participants. We can't wait to share these awe-inspiring fossils with you in the future!

Have fun at the Shindig! 🦖

#FossilFriday Montana's State Fossil, the hadrosaurid Maiasaura at the Museum of the Rockies

Today's outreach really had a...leg up. 🦕 (Get it? Because this is a Diplodocus fibula?)

Today, I traveled to Billings, MT for two fossil programs at the Billings Public Library—one for kids and one for adults! Everyone got to hear about the great work we do @elevationscience.bsky.social!

What a treat running into @arctomet.bsky.social and @drneurosaurus.bsky.social today between outreach events! 🦖

Week 3 of field season! ✅

Sauropod toes, a great crew of students, a visit from Kallie Moore, and lots of jacketing going on in each quarry.

Forgot to do a Week Two highlight of field season!

Sauropods, quarry expansions, tricky jackets, and sunset thunderstorms.

We just finished up the final week with the Field Paleontology students. And what a whirlwind two weeks it was!

Can you believe we're almost halfway through field season ALREADY?

YouTube video by Elevation Science Elevation Science Field Season 2025: Week One

Week One of the 2025 field season is done and we can't believe how it flew!

Winter jackets removed, backfill shoveled, and new discoveries made—a potential new dinosaur to explore and even a sauropod tooth!

Thanks to our Week One participants for a great first week!

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Field Season 2025 Week One in a nutshell:

Happy 4th of July from Elevation Science!

Check out what we get up to before the fossil hunting begins!

First time seeing the Clark's Fork Canyon yesterday!

Some of our staff got to explore Clark's Fork Canyon today in Wyoming!

Meet the Team: Skye Walker (Field Tech & SciComm Manager)

Dino digger. SciComm wizard. Sweet tea drinker. Skye brings humor, heart, and excavation know-how to the field and the feed—usually with a dad joke in her back pocket.

A new Mongolian tyrannosauroid and the evolution of Eutyrannosauria - Nature A new tyrannosauroid, Khankhuuluu mongoliensis gen. et sp. nov., from lower Upper Cretaceous deposits of Mongolia provides a new perspective on eutyrannosaurian origins and evolution.

The Perle (1977) "Alectrosaurus" material is FINALLY described!!

Voris, J.T., Zelenitsky, D.K., Kobayashi, Y. et al. A new Mongolian tyrannosauroid and the evolution of Eutyrannosauria. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

And I almost listened to those people.

#paleontology #womeninstem

At Elevation Science, we’ve seen some incredible smiles—dirt-covered, sun-soaked, and fossil-fueled. From first discoveries to shared laughs in the quarry, these moments are what make fieldwork so special. Happy #NationalSmileDay from all of us in the dirt!

Spinosaurus and girl

🚨 LAST CHANCE! 🚨

Enter by 8 PM EST tonight for a shot at joining our 2026 fossil dig in Montana!

Dig dinosaurs, hike the Montana landscape, watch beautiful mountain sunsets.
No experience needed.

🎉 elevationscience.org/sweepstakes

#sweepstakes #dinosaurs

Happy #NationalDinosaurDay! 🦖🦕

From massive sauropod ribs to dangerous theropod claws, we’re celebrating the ancient giants that once roamed our planet—and the thrill of uncovering their stories one layer at a time.

These fossils didn’t dig themselves… 😉

Against a light purple sky and yellowish plantscape, two russet-coloured armoured dinosaurs wrestle in wet mud, one having got purchase under its rival to heave it up: will it topple over? Why would ankylosaurs do this? Fighting over resources, like lady ankylosaurs or territory? It's hard to say. Ultimately, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks.

New #paleoart for #FossilFriday: battling Borealopelta with deep (instead of "high waisted") armour and pigmentation. There's a scientific rationale behind this #ankylosaur #art, which you can read here, along with viewing the hi-res and WIPs of the painting. www.patreon.com/posts/130274... #sciart

Here is some of Black Beauty's real material from the Royal Tyrell collections—such as teeth, bits of the maxilla, and more! (So surreal seeing those with my own eyes!)

Discovered in 1980 in Alberta, Canada, this remarkable dinosaur is known not only for its completeness but also for its coloration. The almost-black appearance of the bones comes from the high manganese content in the matrix (or the surrounding rock), giving Black Beauty their nickname.

Meet "Black Beauty" (RTMP 81.6.1)—one of the most iconic Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever discovered!

#FossilFriday

Continuous presence of dinosauromorphs in South America throughout the Middle to the Late Triassic - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Continuous presence of dinosauromorphs in South America throughout the Middle to the Late Triassic

Paes Neto, V.D., Pretto, F.A., Martinelli, A.G. et al. Continuous presence of dinosauromorphs in South America throughout the Middle to the Late Triassic. Sci Rep 15, 18498 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A new hadrosaurid dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco provides evidence for an African radiation of lambeosaurines In the Late Cretaceous, continental fragmentation and high sea levels created a series of island continents, leading to the evolution of endemic dinos…

Um novo dinossauro hadrossaurídeo dos Fosfatos do Maastrichtiano Tardio do Marrocos fornece evidências de uma radiação africana de lambeossauríneos www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...