Featured Fossil: Cookie Cutter Sharks in Florida!
Recently, the Florida Museum of Natural History received a donation from Ken Marks. The donation included a handful of microscopic … Continue
Featured Fossil: Ancient Bison Tooth–or Not? Introducing the “Burn Test”
A weekend beach outing-October 24th, 2015 Last October, my family joined Bruce MacFadden and Sean Moran on a guided tour … Continue
Featured Fossil: A New Species of Thalattosaur from the Triassic of North-Central Oregon
In the spring of 2011, during a geology class field trip to a road cut near Suplee, Oregon, Gloria Carr … Continue
Featured Fossil: Edrioasteroids of Cincinnati
In the spring of 2002, attendees of Cincinnati’s annual gem, mineral, and fossil show, GeoFair, cast their ballots to elect … Continue
Featured Fossil: Lake Jacksboro Nautiloids
In the days preceding the large Society of Vertebrate Paleontology conference in Dallas, Texas, the FOSSIL Project held a two … Continue
Featured Fossil: Mesohippus Mandible
During the morning hours of Thursday, August 13, 2015, a 6th and 7th grade science teacher at the Academy of the Holy … Continue
Fossils from Lee Creek Mine and Calvert Cliffs
Ten Teeth Ten teeth…just ten teeth…this is all after a long day of field work in the marine sediments of … Continue
Featured Fossil: Scavenged Whale Bone
The Backstory It was a chilly Saturday morning in early January of this year when five of my friends and … Continue
Featured Fossil: Megatylopus matthewi metatarsal
The Backstory After looking for fossils in Panama this summer with the GABI RET team, I was excited to get … Continue
Featured Fossil: Miocene Peccary Lower Jaw
Although peccaries resemble pigs, they actually occupy their own family—the Tayassuidae. They are artiodactyls (i.e., the even-toed ungulates), a large … Continue