UW: CHASING THE CRETACEOUS

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We have a body — how did it get here?

My team and I ventured to the heart of dinosaur country during a particularly sweltering July to follow Kelsie Abrams, the Fossil Lab Manager for the University of Washington’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. This film documents how Abrams and her crew of volunteers battle intense heat, biting flies, and a forbidding terrain to unearth the treasures that lay hidden beneath the barren hillsides of the Hell Creek Formation in remote eastern Montana, possibly the best place in the world to find fossils from the Late Cretaceous.

To help visualize the animals that are referenced in the film, I drew the following illustrations to show what they might have looked like, inside and out.

NOTE: No generative AI was used in the creation of these images.