From a newly discovered fossil, to a masterpiece for everyone to see, that's the job of Paleontologist Mike Triebold.

You may not recognize his face, but chances are, you've seen his place of work.

Triebold owns the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center in Woodland Park.

One thing is for sure; this isn't your typical museum.

Sure the RMDRC is full of spectacle with skeletons of all kinds of ancient animals inside.

But it's what you don't see that makes this museum so special.

"We had a huge body of work. We had enough material to create a museum of our own," said Mike Triebold.

A museum where behind closed doors, everything is brought to life.

A team of artists work meticulously on every specimen they bring in to the shop, which is nestled in the back of the museum.

That shop is one of the largest prep labs in the entire world. That’s according to the RMDC’s Curator, Anthony Maltese.

"We do a lot of research here. We do a lot of specimen's. We are a serious, serious business," said Maltese.

It all starts out on the field.

Triebold along with Maltese and others, dig up their own bones every summer.

On a good day, they'll come home with something, that with a little work, can be reassembled and turned into a masterpiece that everyone can see.

"There's very few places in the world where you can wake up and say, I'm going to go to work on the skull of a brand new animal that's never been seen before," said Maltese with a smile on his face.

Woodland Park’s dinosaur getaway has been open for more than 4 years now. It’s Mike Triebold's pride and joy.

For a man who learned this trade all on his own, turning what may look like rubble to some, into the skeleton of a long lost creature; it's more than impressive,it's prehistoric.