excavated
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Gus was excavated and assembled over five years by a team at Theropoda Expeditions, which painstakingly documented where each piece was found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Gus was discovered in South Dakota’s fossil-rich Hell Creek Formation and excavated between 2021 and 2023, followed by three years of lab work to prep, assemble, and mount the bones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The tunnel would be excavated from both ends and built with a sprayed concrete lining.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Previous ideas suggested that the deepest material excavated by the impact might be concentrated in parts of the basin far from the lunar south polar regions targeted for exploration.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 22, 2026
A nearly complete skeleton was excavated of an extinct bird—the Jupiter bird, it would later be called.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
