Featured Fossil: New Heron described from the Montbrook Fossil Site in Levy County, Florida
Around 5 million years ago, Williston, Florida was a very different place. The gulf coast was much further inland than … Continue
Featured Fossil: Dedicated Volunteer Discovers New Shark Species While Microsorting Through Matrix of SUE the T. rex
Peter Makovicky (Curator, Earth Sciences) coauthored a paper with Field Museum Research Associates Terry “Bucky” Gates (lead author) and Eric … Continue
Featured Fossil: Eocene Egg
During July and August of this summer, a group of vertebrate paleontologists from the Florida Museum of Natural History spent … Continue
Featured Fossil: Ichthyornis dispar
Before his first day of college in the summer of 2014, incoming Fort Hays State University (FHSU) freshman Kris Super … Continue
Featured Fossil: Triceratops vs. Tyrannosaurus
Movies, television, and comic books have all depicted dinosaurs fighting each other many times. However, scientific evidence of live interactions … Continue
Featured Fossil: How a 10-year-old boy discovered a 90-million-year-old fish at a Colombian monastery
The tropics are regarded as hot spot of biodiversity on land and in the water, yet the past of the … Continue
Featured Fossil: Hardouinia mortonis Urchins
This issue, we feature two echinoid specimens found by Linda McCall of the North Carolina Fossil Club and the Special … Continue
Featured Fossil: Rare Extinct Land Mammal from Belgrade, North Carolina
Many of us have had the wonderful opportunity to collect fossils from the Belgrade Quarry, located in eastern North Carolina. … Continue
Featured Fossil: Montbrook Otter
The Backstory For some backstory on this fossil as it was originally given to me–this specimen was originally thought to … 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