I'm sitting on the hillside at this fossil site above the Thompson River.

Right now you're hearing Bruce Archibald.

He studies bugs.

And he's telling us about a recent find,

the discovery of an incredibly well-pres million year old giant wasp.

It's a sort of a sagebrush and cactus countryside and I split the rock out of the

hillside with a crowbar and I was

splitting it with chisels and tools and I saw this very impressive big wasp when I put the rock open I jumped up and

whip my pants I was wearing you know that was kind of the style of those days

I wear tight jeans whatever and there you go. I mean there I think that that that

may be a good measure of sort of the significance or at least the the shock of a

fine is if it's a if it's a pants

splitter you know?

That's right to be sort of a pants splitting index or something

of excitement level.

Well scientists they are talking they talk about their kind of aha moment,

and then you could talk about your pants splitting moment.

I could, that's true.

So Bruce, in your research on Wasps,

what was the worst time you ever got stung?

Well, worst time I've ever gotten stunned. Boy, I've never gotten, I don't think I've ever gotten

stunned since I was a little kid. Really?

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