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Nathan Carroll Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Nate Carroll is currently a doctoral candidate in paleontology at the University of Southern California working in the Natural History Museum of L.A. County in Los Angeles. Additionally, he serves as

Jingmai O’Connor Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Dr. Jingmai O’Connor is a senior professor from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at The Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. Her research is focused on the evoluti

Badlands Fossil Beds Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Ever since the badlands of Montana were explored by North America's first fossil collectors and scientists, they have been producing exquisite dinosaur specimens that have resolved our underst

Thomas Holtz Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Dr. Thomas Richard Holtz Jr. is an American vertebrate paleontologist and principal lecturer at the University of Maryland's Department of Geology. He has published extensively on the phylog

Kirk Johnson Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Dr. Kirk Johnson is Sant Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and an esteemed paleobotanist. For the last 36 years, Dr. Johnson has been researching the fossil plants of th

Dave Evans Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Dr. Dave Evans is the Temerty Chair & Senior Curator in Vertebrate Paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.  His current research program at the ROM focuses on the evol

Fairmont Hotel, Deadwood, South Dakota Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum This former Victorian brothel, bar, and gaming hall is located on Main Street in Deadwood and has featured as a prominent landmark in town since it's construction in the late

Eric Scott Wet Plate Ambrotype on front-reflective mirror glass Eric Scott is a vertebrate paleontologist with Cogstone Resource Management, Inc. in California, and an adjunct in biology at California State University, San Bernardino.  He

Holly N. Woodward Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum   Dr. Woodward is an Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Paleontology at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences.  Her paleohistology research focuses on Montana dinosaurs li

Jennifer Hall Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Jennifer Hall is an artist and paleontological field hand working in taxidermy, scientific illustration, and marketing at the Carter County Museum in Ekalaka, Montana. Her scientific illustrations ha

John B. Scannella Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Dr. John Scannella is currently the John R. Horner Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University.  His research revolves around the growth and evolution of t

Marena "Bright Eyes" Mahto Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Marena Mahto is a student in Political Science and  Native American Studies at Montana State University. She is a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation known as the "Thr

Thomas D. Carr Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Dr. Thomas Carr is an Associate Professor of Biology, at Carthage College, Director of the Carthage Institute of Paleontology, and the Senior Scientific Advisor to the Dinosaur Discovery Museum. &nbs

Natalie Delaney-John Wet Plate Ambrotype on front-reflective mirror glass Natalie Delaney-John is an artist, taxidermist, educator and the owner of "Rest in Pieces Taxidermy." Natalie has traveled around the globe to learn this art and has bee

Scott A. Williams Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Scott Williams is the paleontology lab and field specialist with the Museum of the Rockies at Montana State Univeristy. He's been conducting fieldwork in Montana for nearly two decades with MOR a

Tyler Ranse Lyson Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Dr. Tyler Lyson is currently the Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. His research focuses on the extinction of the dinosaurs and changes in the ecosyste

Sabre Moore Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum As executive director of the famous Carter County Museum, Sabre Moore works not only with the incredible, well-known dinosaur fossils from Eastern Montana but also many fine anthropological artifacts.&

Xan Peters Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Xan Peters is currently the paleoartist in residence at the Carter County Museum in Ekalaka, Montana. His work takes imaginative leaps to recreate the world of extinct life using the limited conctete ev

Jaden Stauffer Wet Plate Tin Type on Aluminum Jaden Stauffer is the youngest family member still living and working on the Zerbst Ranch in Niobrara County Wyoming, just outside of the Black Hills. Jaden is a 5th generation rancher, fossil coll

Cary Woodruff Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Cary Woodruff is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Toronto working in the Dave Evans Lab at the Royal Ontario Museum. His research includes the biomechanics of giant long-necked sauropod dinosaur

Tom Fowlks Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Photographer Tom Fowlks photographed here with the wet plate chemistry in Lusk, Wyoming.