CINCINNATI — Cincinnati Museum Center recently added to its fossil collection, one of the largest in the country, following a seven-week field season in Montana led by museum partner Elevation Science Institute. The fossils, numbering in the hundreds, were transported cross-country on a flatbed trailer to CMC’s collection facility for care, preservation and further preparation. Over more than a month-and-a-half, teams of volunteers dug, drilled and dusted in the sun-scorched hills of Montana, carefully exposing and extracting a range of dinosaur fossils. Over the seven-week field season, crews found several hundred fossils, including multiple large sauropod femora from the long-necked herbivores who once thundered across the land. CMC’s vertebrate paleontology collection dates to 1818, when it was established by Cincinnati physician Daniel Drake and the Western Museum Society.