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In 1929, a Smithsonian expedition headed by Charles Gilmore dis- covered and excavated this tail of a duckbill dinosaur in northwestern New Mexico. The tools in the photograph are testimony to how little the technology of collecting dinosaur fossils has changed in over a century. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution, Natural History Museum, Paleobiology Department.