How the Burke Prepares a Fossil

The fossils you see in our exhibit don't come out of the ground looking camera-ready. It takes months, even years, before these fossils have been cleaned off all the rock and mud they came with from the field.
Come learn how the Burke's Fossil Preparation Lab Manager Kelsie Abrams brings a fossils from the field jacket to the beautiful specimens we all know and love!
To learn more or buy tickets, visit our website www.burkemuseum.org/

[@aserta]

Fossil prep is such a cool thing to do.

[@alejandrorojas6835]

Very interesting!

[@Amal-qq1ik]

MAN I LOVE IT OMAIGAWD, wish i could go there tho

[@Sea1fly]

What u use for adhesive

[@nachtmacher6237]

😊

[@JCinerea]

I used to volunteer in the paleobotany department at the Burke. What happened to Bruce? Did he retire?

[@davidtyndall3786]

Bruce became Brianna . We had to sand her bone off. She's not taking it well . Not yet .

[@stonechips2011]

Fantastic video! Thanks for posting this!!! I look forward to more videos in the future

[@drumstick-marblebag]

Fossil Preping should be called Fossil carving or Fossil sculpting, reclaiming, restoration, salvage. It makes more sense.

[@gizmo1252000]

very interesting ,and very well done , by a very pretty lady. she,s a keeper ,

[@billypeek7186]

So happy she wore a mask I'm always worried I may get sick watching a video.

[@CommonSenseCriticism]

She almost passed out with that mask on.

[@johnfrancke5051]

This Video SERIOUSLY WOULD BE 1,000 % BETTER. Without a Damn MASK ON " Throw that Sucker Away Please '

[@oldmate44]

They are mandatory so you don't inhale bone dust and dirt.

[@finleyscotland]

AMEN

[@neonemptiness8152]

Audio is really muffled

[@des711]

The mask is ridiculous for a video.

[@oldmate44]

It's not necessarily for Covid-19 but protection on inhaling bone dust and dirt whilst preparing. They are mandatory in Museums, I even use them at home on private work.

[@des711]

@@oldmate44 I have been to museums that had the people working behind windows and never saw them working with masks. No reason for her wear one during an interview like this.

[@GeneralDeplorable]

Agreed! Really odd

[@jameshurley6021]

@@oldmate44 a cloth mask porosity would not offer you protection from particulate matter coming off the matrix, you need REAL protection...that's just foolishness.

[@emmarina3525]

I've only just begun prepping fossils but the negative change I've gotten from all the dust inhalation and gases from chemicals is insane. Of course you'd want to wear a mask, even if Covid wasn't an issue

[@Briegh2]

This would have been much better without the mask on. I can understand the circumstances in the world that require it, but it doesn't create issues on the sound track :(

[@oldmate44]

It's not for Covid-19. It's mandatory so you don't inhale the bone dust and fine dirt & particles