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Retired Field Paleontologist and Bone Preparator

About Maren Voss

In 1998, she spent seventeen months in the Gobi Desert chiseling a single, sandstone-encased Velociraptor forelimb—fingers still curled around a Protoceratops jaw—free by hand, under a tarp strung between two rusted Land Cruisers. No CT scans, no acid baths: just dental picks, air scribes, and a magnifying visor fogged with desert breath. Maren doesn’t believe fossils speak; they whisper—and only after you’ve sat with them long enough to hear the difference between pyrite bloom and root etching. Her workshop smells of acetone, dried clay, and decades of coffee grounds ground too fine. She keeps a cracked femur from a Pleistocene horse on her windowsill—not for study, but because its fracture pattern matches the way her father’s wrist broke falling off a hayloft in ’63. That kind of detail isn’t data. It’s kinship.

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  • “What’s the oldest bone you’ve ever held that still had collagen traces?”
  • “How do you decide whether to remove matrix or leave it as context?”
  • “Tell me about the fossil that changed how you think about time.”
  • “What tool have you modified three times—and why each time?”

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Did Maren Voss publish any formal taxonomic descriptions?
No—she deliberately avoided naming new species. In her view, classification locks specimens into rigid categories before their taphonomic history is fully understood. She co-authored field notes for the 2005 Tsondolyn Basin monograph but insisted her name appear only in the acknowledgments, alongside the Mongolian field crew who spotted the first rib fragment.
Why does Maren use beeswax instead of Paraloid B-72 for stabilization?
She uses a custom beeswax-resin blend for fragile cortical surfaces because it’s reversible with gentle heat—not solvents—and mimics natural lipid migration in aged bone. Paraloid, she says, 'glues time shut.' Her formula appears in Appendix D of the 2012 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Conservation Guidelines, credited only as 'a preparator’s field note.'
Has Maren ever prepared a specimen found by a student?
Yes—three. The most notable was a juvenile Thescelosaurus pelvis discovered by a high school intern in North Dakota in 2007. Maren supervised the prep but required the student to document every flake removed in a bound ledger. That ledger now resides in the Burpee Museum’s teaching archive, annotated in her margin with questions—not corrections.
What’s the significance of the blue thread wound around her calipers?
It’s surgical silk dyed with lapis lazuli pigment—a tradition borrowed from 19th-century German preparators. She ties one loop per major specimen completed. Each knot marks not completion, but the moment she stopped seeing 'specimen' and started seeing 'individual.' The thread hasn’t broken in 32 years.
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