Paleontology Headline: Caiman Bites Sloth
It only took one 13-million-year-old bone for two paleontologists to reconstruct the dramatic encounter pictured above. That bone is a…
Dinosaur and Mosasaur Art from 1930s New Jersey: Alfred Poledo
I just posted about WPA-era posters created for the U.S. National Parks. One of the great successes of the Depression-era…
Internship at Ashfall
One internship available Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Site in Nebraska. A single internship will be offered for late summer/early…
Explorers Club and Infiniti Celebrate Roy Chapman Andrews’ 1920s Gobi Desert Expedition with SUVs
The Explorers Club, Hong Kong Chapter (which for no real reason immediately brought to mind the Flying Elvises, Utah Chapter)…
Site of the First (Mostly) Complete Dinosaur Skeleton: Haddonfield, New Jersey
In 1858, William Parker Foulke was shown some large bones that had been dug out of a marl pit in…
Paid Paleontology Internship at a Miocene Mammal Mecca
Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park in Nebraska has paid internships available. Ashfall preserves the articulated skeletons of 12-million year old…
Free Access to Recent Geology and Paleontology Articles
Publisher Taylor & Francis is offering free access to all 2013 and 2014 articles from 17 Paleontology and Earth Science…
Smuggled Turtles Identified by Paleontologist
Shells and body parts of endangered turtles were identified by paleontologist Don Brinkman, leading to the conviction of the smuggler.…
Giant Beaver: Two Species to Choose From
There’s no type of extinct mammalian megafauna we like better than the giant beaver. Most specimens of the giant beaver,…
“because it looks like it, goddamit it!” On Identifying Bones and Fossils
One more quote from paleontologist Clayton E. Ray, this time on the epistemology of identifying animal bones: “… the techniques…