Terra Infirma — A soft spot on the hard rock of Reality
Bosco's RockPile
A first-hand archive of paleontology field excavations and ongoing earth monitoring.
Welcome to the RockPile. Please make yourself at home.
Bosco’s RockPile is a long-running personal earth-science archive. It documents direct, hands-on participation in paleontological excavations — and the ongoing monitoring of the living earth from a backyard seismic and weather station in Soquel, California.
What you’ll find here is the record of real fieldwork: how specimens were found, stabilized, mapped, and lifted from the rock — quarry context, field methods, and recovery procedures. This is a field journal and an archive, not a general dinosaur information site.
Three excavations anchor the collection — the Apatosaurus “Bertha” at Como Bluff, the Sarah/Sophie Stegosaurus at Shell, and a Camarasaurus from Red Canyon Ranch. Dig in.
From the field
Expeditions
Como Bluff — Apatosaurus ("Bertha")
Modern excavation at the historic Como Bluff locality with Dr. Robert T. Bakker — recovering Apatosaurus material, including "Bertha."
Sarah / Sophie — The Stegosaurus
A partial Stegosaurus identified in the field by its exposed tail spikes — the specimen later displayed at London's Natural History Museum as "Sophie."
Camarasaurus — Shell, Wyoming
A two-month excavation of an over-90%-complete Camarasaurus skeleton with healed trauma, later transferred to the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Japan.
Image Licensing & Research Inquiries
Specimens and field photography from this archive are available for research, publication, and museum use. Get in touch to discuss licensing or collaboration.
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