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…
Internship at Ashfall
Update: This internship is available again for 2021. Runs from August 1 to October 10, 36-38 hour workweek. One internship…
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…
Restored Wetlands and a Hotel in Iowa
I enter my Iowa City hotel room and open the curtains to check out the view and there’s a flash…
The Oldest Passenger Pigeon Fossil
How old is the earliest passenger pigeon fossil? A single wing bone found at the Lee Creek Mine paleontological locality…
“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…
Clayton E. Ray on Forgotten Knowledge and Objective Mistakes
More from Clayton E. Ray: discoveries do not stay discovered; they must be tended like a garden. (p. 15) …
Whether in the Library or in the Field, Always Dig Deeper
I don’t think I have ever read an introduction to a collection of paleontology papers that had more gems than…
One giant crocodile fossil with a Tolkien name? How about 26 small mammals?
University of Florida scientists have name a newly discovered extinct crocodile Anthracosuchus balrogus, after the Tolkien’s Balrog, defeated by Gandalf…
Hildegarde Howard on Trowelblazers
Just discovered this site, and it looks to be quite good. Start with their post on paleontologist Hildegarde Howard, because…