Rikke started us off this morning with a presentation on fossils and evolution. Afterwards, we all trucked out to the local fossil beds. Although they are now fully exposed, the beds were formerly located on the ocean floor. For this reason, we found everything from clam and mussel shells to full fish fossils while digging through the sand and silt! After a while, though, the inevitable happened, and Sydney, Dana, and Fie started an all-out mud fight. Amid much squealing, mud-slinging, and shouting, Agnes, Sasha, and I took cover and did our best to avoid being hit while we continued digging for fossils. Aggu simply sat back and laughed while all those who weren't involved in the fight took pictures and video.
Things settled down after a little while, and all the crazies left to get cleaned up. Those of us who weren't completely coated in mud settled back into digging for fossils, which turned out to be quite fruitful. I found half a fish, an interestingly shaped piece of what I think was something's jaw, a full fish, and a ton of clam shells. I'm excited to clean all the gunk off of these things and uncover what they actually are! (Hopefully I'll have some better pictures of these to share later, but right now they just look like lumps of dirt.) So exciting!
We had a fun little movie night this evening. We watched The Proposal, which was actually pretty popular with the Greenlandic students. Another great day in Greenland!
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