Here’s something a little bit different for the blog! Last month, one of our eagle-eyed CobraHead fans forwarded us a news article about a significant fossil find in Maryland. Entomologist and paleontology department volunteer at Calvert Marine Museum Emily Bzdyk was fossil hunting on a beach on the Chesapeake Bay when she spotted what turned out to be a 15 million-year-old dolphin skull fossil. And while we think that story is cool enough on its own, we were utterly tickled to see our Original CobraHead Weeder featured prominently in some of the photos.
Photo by Calvert Marine Museum
I immediately reached out to the Calvert Marine Museum to find out more. Bonnie Farmer, the museum’s Communications and Marketing Coordinator sent us back some photos and gave us the following backstory:
“Bill Prochownik, a long-time paleo volunteer and friend to the museum first brought the Cobrahead tool [to] a dig. Once everyone saw how useful it was, they started to buy them too. We even got one for our department tool kit. Sadly, Bill passed away earlier this year, but was instrumental in getting the paleo department using the Cobrahead tool.”
We’d like to offer our thanks in memoriam to Bill for passing along his good opinion of our hand digging tool. And congratulations to Emily Bzdyk and the Calvert Marine Museum for this amazing find!
L-R Marcus Jones, Stephen Groff and Emily Bzdyk, photo by Calvert Marine Museum
Emily Bzdyk with the Calvert Cliffs, photo by Calvert Marine Museum