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Presenting to Sharks and Minnows campers at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Photo courtesy of Victor Perez.

FOSSIL Project Spends a Day at Camp – Three to be Exact…

Jul 1, 2018

Summer is a time for fun and relaxation, except when you’re a grad student! It is a time to catch … Continue

MAPS members and MacKenzie collecting in Rockford, Iowa

YouTube “50 States of Fossils” Update

Jul 1, 2018

My PhD research focuses on plants from a particular formation that is found only in Oregon. Thus, in order to … Continue

Welded mammoth sculpture. Photo courtesy of Lonny Smart

Education: The Wenas Mammoth Foundation’s Educational Program

Jul 1, 2018

In 2005, while constructing a road on a hillside overlooking the Wenas Valley, north of Selah, in Central Washington State, … Continue

Exposing an Allosaurus fibula at “LZ Blue”

Bighorn Basin Paleontological Institute Celebrates Its First Year

Mar 1, 2018

You last heard from us around this same time last year, when the Bighorn Basin Paleontological Institute was a mere one … Continue

The Paleo Hall at the Whiteside Museum of Natural History

Introducing the Whiteside Museum of Natural History

Mar 1, 2018

The Whiteside Museum of Natural History (WMNH) was established as a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation in December of 2013 due to … Continue

Andy Farke

Faunal Interchanges, High School Students, and the Paleobiology Database

Mar 1, 2018

I teach an introductory paleontology research class for high school students (grades 10 and 11), which I have refined over … Continue

MacKenzie Smith at the FOSSIL booth at GSA

FOSSIL Project at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting

Dec 1, 2017

In late October, the FOSSIL Project traveled to the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington. There, FOSSIL … Continue

Neal Hairston (far left) at the FOSSIL booth at GSA 2017

Shark Teeth Forensics and Diversity in Science

Dec 1, 2017

Editor’s note: While preparing for our Citizen Science in Paleontology technical session at the GSA annual meeting, the FOSSIL Project … Continue

Dr. Luis Chiappe (Vice president of Research and Collections at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County & Director of the Dinosaur Institute), Karol McQueary (President of the Southern California Paleontological Society), and 6th grade student Llandyn Lubs and family with Assembly member Richard Bloom

A Dinosaur for California – Part II

Dec 1, 2017

Good news! California now has an official state dinosaur, as of September 23rd, when Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 1540, … Continue

Sample pages from “Daring to Dig”

New Book! Introducing “Daring to Dig: Adventures of Women in American Paleontology”

Dec 1, 2017

Editor’s Note: Daring to Dig is a new children’s book published by the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI), featuring the stories … Continue

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