Women in Paleontology Webinar Series: A Summary and Review
Women in Paleontology: Tara’s Take with Tara Lepore Taormina (Tara) Lepore kicked off the second FOSSIL webinar series promoting Women in … Continue
Education: South Florida Museum and Planetarium/Toomey Foundation Badlands Field Trips for Educators
Indiana Jones, Dr. Zahi Hawass, and Howard Carter are a few famous archaeologists or not so famous archaeologists that have … Continue
Paleontology in the “Real-World”: Using the Recent Paleontological Literature to Engage High School Students and Encourage STEM-based Learning
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!
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
The Bighorn Basin of northern Wyoming and southern Montana preserves a nearly continuous record of sedimentation from the Cambrian (520 … Continue
Featured Fossil: Tooth Deformities in Megalodon
Tooth deformities are common in sharks, but come in many different varieties. These deformities are often referred to as pathologies; … Continue
Research: Horse Teeth Reveal the History of the Youngest California Crocs
Let’s talk about crocs! Florida, home of the FOSSIL project headquarters, is famous for them. “Wait a second,” you might … Continue
Club Corner: Paleontological Association of Georgia (a new organization)
“A beginning is a very delicate time” ~ The opening phrase from Dune, Frank Herbert, 1965. On Saturday, January 28, … Continue
Amateur Spotlight: Malcolm W. Bedell, Jr.
Editor’s note: This issue, Malcolm W. Bedell, past president and honorary lifetime member of the Western Interior Paleontological Society (WIPS), … Continue
Featured Professional: James R. Thomka
Editor’s note: Our featured professional this issue is James Thomka, an assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University … Continue