Dinosaur Duster
Washington, D.C.

For over thirty years, Frank Braisted has been dusting 145-million-year-old bones. Frank is the one and only dinosaur duster at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Five days a week in the early hours of the morning, he has the dinosaurs all to himself as he grooms them with a feather duster and a vacuum cleaner. One thing he never does, however, is touch the bones. Here Frank appears with the Stegosaurus, a plant-eater known for its small head and slender jaws. He admits, though, that his favorite is the Allosaurus, a meat-eater with impressive teeth and claws.