Ken's Broken Turtle (and other fieldwork mishaps)

Dr. Ken Angielczyk is an Associate Curator at the Field Museum. While his research primarily focuses on a group of ancient mammal relatives called Dicynodonts, he's dabbled elsewhere in the fossil record, too, including that time a broken fossil turtle shell led to a new discovery, or another instance in which he nearly walked away from a site teeming with Asilisaurus-- one of the oldest dinosaurs ever discovered.

Today's episode explores the opportunities we find when mistakes are (nearly) made.