As Carmen would say: “Why and how do you get this junk? Look’s terrible”… well it came all the way from Brazil from Rodrigo Henrique Gomes. And indeed at the beginning didn’t look very promising… but guess what happened next… little by little, step by step “Dave”, the sinornithosaur, my dream fossil came true…

After more than 20 years of having had it in my hands at dear Mark Norell’s AMNH office looking to Central Park, NY… and having been unable to sleep that night after seeing one of the most perfect examples of feathered dinosaurs EVER… well… the only alternative I could ever lay my hands on this for my shelves. was after a frantic, decent (or half decent) paint job. I still think needs a bit of retouching…

… and next came another biggest challenge… loook at this! It still doesn’t make much sense to me, but the (In)famous Ubirajara was at my desk too!

Carmen had to admit that…the whole lot made much more sense now!