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cookie cutter fossils

Featured Fossil: Cookie Cutter Sharks in Florida!

Dec 1, 2016

Recently, the Florida Museum of Natural History received a donation from Ken Marks. The donation included a handful of microscopic … Continue

Erin performing the test. Photo courtesy of Jeff Gage

Featured Fossil: Ancient Bison Tooth–or Not? Introducing the “Burn Test”

Sep 1, 2016

A weekend beach outing-October 24th, 2015 Last October, my family joined Bruce MacFadden and Sean Moran on a guided tour … Continue

Half skull Part 2

Featured Fossil: A New Species of Thalattosaur from the Triassic of North-Central Oregon

Jul 1, 2016

In the spring of 2011, during a geology class field trip to a road cut near Suplee, Oregon, Gloria Carr … Continue

Cystaster stellatus on brachiopod shell, exhibiting the straight, robust ambulacra and star-like shape characteristic of the genus. Covington, Kentucky. Jack Kallmeyer collection.

Featured Fossil: Edrioasteroids of Cincinnati

Mar 1, 2016

In the spring of 2002, attendees of Cincinnati’s annual gem, mineral, and fossil show, GeoFair, cast their ballots to elect … Continue

Coiled Nautiloids

Featured Fossil: Lake Jacksboro Nautiloids

Dec 1, 2015

In the days preceding the large Society of Vertebrate Paleontology conference in Dallas, Texas, the FOSSIL Project held a two … Continue

Jaw in situ

Featured Fossil: Mesohippus Mandible

Sep 1, 2015

During the morning hours of Thursday, August 13, 2015, a 6th and 7th grade science teacher at the Academy of the Holy … Continue

Some of the more interesting finds from the Belgrade Mine: an astragalus (possibly from a peccary), a crocodyliform tooth, a pathologic sand tiger shark tooth, a large sand tiger shark tooth, another large sand tiger shark tooth, and a mako shark tooth (from right to left). Photo courtesy of Victor Perez.

Fossils from Lee Creek Mine and Calvert Cliffs

Jun 1, 2015

Ten Teeth Ten teeth…just ten teeth…this is all after a long day of field work in the marine sediments of … Continue

Close-up of a whale bone with scavenging bite marks on it

Featured Fossil: Scavenged Whale Bone

Mar 1, 2015

The Backstory It was a chilly Saturday morning in early January of this year when five of my friends and … Continue

Megan's find: fossilized metatarsal of a Megatylopus matthewi

Featured Fossil: Megatylopus matthewi metatarsal

Dec 1, 2014

The Backstory After looking for fossils in Panama this summer with the GABI RET team, I was excited to get … Continue

Fossilized peccary jaw

Featured Fossil: Miocene Peccary Lower Jaw

Sep 1, 2014

Although peccaries resemble pigs, they actually occupy their own family—the Tayassuidae. They are artiodactyls (i.e., the even-toed ungulates), a large … Continue

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