it, because we all wanted to see what the skeleton was going to look like. >> basically, we'd take different sections so we weren't in each other's way and just kind of worked the specimen until we could start removing bones. >> you know, and every time somebody found a bone or fragments, they just said, "the s bone." we wouldn't say, "skull." we didn't want to jinx it. >> pretty early on, i hit something hard, and so, i stopped. "it's the 's' word," i said, thinking, "i bet i hit the skull." when i got down digging and then started really working with the smaller knife, we found, as we were going down, is the back of the skull. and we're getting down, and here's this skull taking shape,