July 11, 2009 - Cretaceous Fossils, Greene Co, AL
Submitted by admin2 on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 2:17pmBPS members and guests headed down to Greene county, Alabama for our July trip. This site is a creek covered with pea gravel - making screening for shark teeth and other fossils quite difficult. However, most found it fairly easy to spot the fossils lying on top of the gravel. Numerous shark teeth were found, a couple of mosasaur teeth, several ptychodus teeth, a gar vertebra and tooth, c
Falls of the Ohio Annual Fossil Festival
BPS Meeting August 3, 2009
Free parking, enter the McWane parking deck from 2nd Ave. NORTH and proceed to yellow level "C". Enter door marked "Special Events" and turn left to the large auditorium.
Birds of a Feather - Part 2 - Blog by James Lamb
Submitted by admin2 on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 6:21pmThere are to date at least 21 different types of dinosaurs that are known to have had feathers. Even Velociraptor, a well-established dinosaur, appears to have had a feather coating, as a recently discovered specimen shows that it had the bumps on one of its forearm bones called “quill nodes” that indicate where feathers attach in modern birds.
Birds of a Feather - Part 1 - Blog by James Lamb
Submitted by admin2 on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 12:18amThe pair of fighting dinosaurs tumbled across the sidewalk in front of me, bringing me to an abrupt halt. Screeching, flipping tail over talon, grasping at each other with their sharp, three-toed hind feet and stabbing at each other with their mouths, they didn’t even pause when they rolled over a vertical drop twice their own body length.
BPS meeting July 6, 2009
Free parking, enter the McWane parking deck from 2nd Ave. NORTH and proceed to yellow level "C". Enter door marked "Special Events" and turn left to the large auditorium.
April 11, 2009 - Mississippian Fossils, Morgan Co, AL
Submitted by Ron Beerman on Sun, 06/07/2009 - 11:00pmOn 11 April, BPS visited a quarry in Morgan county. After signing in and filling out all the release forms we were escorted to the dig site. The quarry contains limestone, and the fossils found were primarily from the Mississippian Period of the Paleozoic Era.
May 16, 2009 - Cretaceous Fossils, Sumter County, AL
Submitted by Nancy Kenfield Lea on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 1:22amOld hands as well as new joined up early on Saturday morning for a trip to some great Cretaceous gully sites in West Alabama. Dr. John Hall and Dr.
June 1, 2009 BPS meeting
The next regular meeting of the BPS is Monday, June 1, 2009, 7-9 pm at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama. The speaker will be Dr. Fred Andrus. His title for the lecture is "Sclerochronology: Fossil records of ecology, climate, and environment". He is an assistant professor in the department of geological sciences in Tuscaloosa.
Dr. Andrus research interests:
Google honors Paleontology
Submitted by admin2 on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 12:34pmCheck out the Google Search site for today, May 20, 2009 - In honor of the finding of the Missing Link to humans, published in numerous places on the web, Google has honored paleontology with a special banner on their search page. For more details of this fossil find, see this research article titled "Complete
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