Featured Paleontologist: Dena M. Smith
Editor’s note: This issue, Eleanor Gardner posed questions to Dr. Dena Smith. Dena is Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology and Associate … Continue
FOSSIL Project Updates
Recent activities The FOSSIL Project collaborated with the Dallas Paleontological Society (DPS) and held a successful two-day mini conference October 12 … Continue
The FOSSIL Project Partners with iDigBio
Every amateur and professional paleontologist is familiar with these two problems: (1) inadequate access to literature with morphological descriptions and … Continue
FOSSIL Project Updates
Dr. Ronny Leder has joined us as a full-time postdoctoral fellow. His primary responsibilities include interfacing with the iDigBio digitization … Continue
Op-Ed: Reflection on Recent FOSSIL Project Events
I have invested a considerable amount of energy in writing about the FOSSIL Project, since my introduction to it at … Continue
3D Digitization of Fossils for Educators and Citizen Scientists Workshop
I was fortunate enough to attend the collaborative workshop at the University of Florida on 3D digitization of fossils geared … Continue
Amazing Experience for Conferees at Fort Robinson
This past August, we had the opportunity to attend the 2015 PCP-PIRE/GABI-RET/FOSSIL Collaborative Paleontology Conference in the Badlands of Nebraska, … Continue
Counting Coprolites: A Road to the Record Books
George Frandsen, a fossil collector based in Florida, recently reached a new milestone that many of us have often fantasized … Continue
Featured Paleoartist Jason Bourque
You can view some of Jason’s illustrations and sculptures of prehistoric animals such as the pampathere armadillo Holmesina and giant land tortoise Hesperotestudo in … Continue
Research: The “Terror Bird”: Paleobiology of a Fierce Bird
During most of my childhood, my grandfather used to tell me stories about how he had fought in his younger … Continue