It only took one 13-million-year-old bone for two paleontologists to reconstruct the dramatic encounter pictured above. That bone is a tibia, or lower leg bone, from an extinct ground sloth…

Update: This internship is available again for 2021. Runs from August 1 to October 10, 36-38 hour workweek. One internship available Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Site in Nebraska. A…

Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park in Nebraska has paid internships available. Ashfall preserves the articulated skeletons of 12-million year old rhinoceros, horses, camels, and deer who died after a volcanic…

I enter my Iowa City hotel room and open the curtains to check out the view and there’s a flash of green in front of my eyes. It’s an actual,…

How old is the earliest passenger pigeon fossil?  A single wing bone found at the Lee Creek Mine paleontological locality in North Carolina is 3.7 to 4.8 million years old,…

One more quote from paleontologist Clayton E. Ray, this time on the epistemology of identifying animal bones: “… the techniques [of comparative methodology, i.e., comparing unknowns to knowns] were not…

More from Clayton E. Ray: discoveries do not stay discovered; they must be tended like a garden. (p. 15)   approach to truth is a fragile dynamic that requires continual…

I don’t think I have ever read an introduction to a collection of paleontology papers that had more gems than Clayton E. Ray’s “Prodomus” to a volume on Miocene/Pliocene Lee…

University of Florida scientists have name a newly discovered extinct crocodile Anthracosuchus balrogus, after the Tolkien’s Balrog, defeated by Gandalf in the Mines of Moria. Name one new species after…

Just discovered this site, and it looks to be quite good. Start with their post on paleontologist Hildegarde Howard, because she identified fossil passenger pigeons out west: Photo from Trowelblazers,…