From the Smithsonian Institution, here’s a passenger pigeon bone, specifically a left humerus (wing). the Smithsonian only identifies it as…

In 1858, William Parker Foulke was shown some large bones that had been dug out of a marl pit in…

Book review of Donald K. Grayson’s Giant Sloths and Sabertooth Cats: Extinct Mammals and the Archaeology of the Ice Age Great…

Publisher Taylor & Francis is offering free access to all 2013 and 2014 articles from 17 Paleontology and Earth Science…

How old is the earliest passenger pigeon fossil?  A single wing bone found at the Lee Creek Mine paleontological locality…

A controversial dam and reservoir planned for British Columbia, Canada, is expected to flood over 12,000 acres (5000 hectares) of…

One more quote from paleontologist Clayton E. Ray, this time on the epistemology of identifying animal bones: “… the techniques…

More from Clayton E. Ray: discoveries do not stay discovered; they must be tended like a garden. (p. 15)  …

I don’t think I have ever read an introduction to a collection of paleontology papers that had more gems than…

The Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida is advertising a 2 year postdoctoral fellowship starting January…