March 2017 Archives

Women in Paleontology Webinar Series: A Summary and Review

Mar 1, 2017

Women in Paleontology: Tara’s Take with Tara Lepore Taormina (Tara) Lepore kicked off the second FOSSIL webinar series promoting Women in … Continue

Aaron with a tortoise (Stylemys nebrascensis)

Education: South Florida Museum and Planetarium/Toomey Foundation Badlands Field Trips for Educators

Mar 1, 2017

Indiana Jones, Dr. Zahi Hawass, and Howard Carter are a few famous archaeologists or not so famous archaeologists that have … Continue

To conclude a three-month long internship with the National Park Service, Gina Roberti presents the results of her education project to sophomore students at Hagerman High School. The lesson begins by asking, “What does paleontology look like today?” and teaches about mammalian tooth adaptations as preserved in the fossil record. Students learned to read a complex graph based on paleontological data published in 2012 (Jardine et al. “Grit Not Grass”).

Paleontology in the “Real-World”: Using the Recent Paleontological Literature to Engage High School Students and Encourage STEM-based Learning

Mar 1, 2017

During the winter of 2015-2016, I had the incredible opportunity to live and work at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument … Continue

A Dinosaur for California!

Mar 1, 2017

California, like all states, has many symbols – the state tree (redwood), state marine fish (Garibaldi), state fossil (Smilodon fatalis), … Continue

New Characters in a Long History of Bighorn Basin Paleontology

Mar 1, 2017

The Bighorn Basin of northern Wyoming and southern Montana preserves a nearly continuous record of sedimentation from the Cambrian (520 … Continue

Figure 3. Megalodon tooth exhibiting wavy cutting edges

Featured Fossil: Tooth Deformities in Megalodon

Mar 1, 2017

Tooth deformities are common in sharks, but come in many different varieties. These deformities are often referred to as pathologies; … Continue

Michelle Barboza holds the tooth of the youngest fossil crocodile known from California, and one of the fossil horse teeth used to determine it’s age

Research: Horse Teeth Reveal the History of the Youngest California Crocs

Mar 1, 2017

Let’s talk about crocs! Florida, home of the FOSSIL project headquarters, is famous for them. “Wait a second,” you might … Continue

Ashley Quinn, Interim President Paleontological Association of Georgia; Collection Manager, Georgia College Natural History Museum

Club Corner: Paleontological Association of Georgia (a new organization)

Mar 1, 2017

“A beginning is a very delicate time” ~ The opening phrase from Dune, Frank Herbert, 1965. On Saturday, January 28, … Continue

Tim Seeber (left) and Malcolm Bedell (right) with large Mastodon femur, Snowmass, Colorado, 2011

Amateur Spotlight: Malcolm W. Bedell, Jr.

Mar 1, 2017

Editor’s note: This issue, Malcolm W. Bedell, past president and honorary lifetime member of the Western Interior Paleontological Society (WIPS), … Continue

Fieldwork at the Napoleon quarry of SE Indiana, famous for the diversity, abundance, and preservational quality of diploporitan “cystoids” recovered from that site.

Featured Professional: James R. Thomka

Mar 1, 2017

Editor’s note: Our featured professional this issue is James Thomka, an assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University … Continue

Month: March 2017