Gray Fossil Site and Natural History Museum in Gray, TN

We took a tour of an active dig site today. I learned how to sift for fossils.

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I had a blast picking up each piece and saying “ROCK”!

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Yup, more rocks! Breighton did find a real fossil. I just found ROCKS!

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Shaking and more shaking.

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Guess what? MORE ROCKS!

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Then I got distracted b heavy machinery. At first it was just a “dirt pounder”. Then the “boom boom” appeared!

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This is a ‘boom boom”. I am obsessed with all things “boom boom”. In fact I have been sleeping with a garbage truck all week! 🙂 Another “boom boom”.

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We played inside the museum for a bit afterwards.

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I made some amazing discoveries in putting dinosaur parts together.

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One last shot and we are on the road back to North Carolina.

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