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This year The Children’s Museum partnered with the South Dakota Discovery Center in Pierre, SD, and we welcomed a group of their members on our second day of digging. It was nice to host the South Dakotans as they trekked from Pierre to Faith to join us.
We uncovered some pretty cool stuff on Day 2: A sacrum was found by Riley and Emily, Hannah uncovered a nice scapula (which she had unknowingly been sitting on all morning!) but it had to be left in the ground for further exposure, and Mary and Jesse were hard at work for most of the day on a tibia that goes straight into the wall. We can’t wait to see what it looks like when it comes out!
The best and most surprising find of the day came in the form of a teeny tiny prehistoric snail. That’s right, a snail - otherwise known as a gastropod. This little guy was smaller than a finger nail and was found by Jackson. The guys were excited about this find because it gives us another species at the site that we didn’t know about.
When the day was all said and done, the diggers were happy and everyone walked away having found something to talk about. Another good day of digging, can’t wait to see what next week brings us.
