Birmingham Paleontological Society

BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month at the McWane Science Center. Park in the deck on "Level C", go through doors marked Special Event Center, and follow signs to meeting. The business meeting begins at 7:00, followed by the program around 7:45 or 8pm.

Program by Jun Ebersole - Preview of the next major McWane Science Center Exhibit - Alabama Cretaceous Dinosaurs, which is expected to open around March 14, 2008.

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The current drought brought us to a favourite site in the Conasauga formation in Cherokee County, hoping that low water levels would have exposed more finds. Unfortunately, it proved to be a double-edge sword in that, while more shoreline was exposed, with the lack of water washing the rocks, the trilobite pickin's were slim, indeed. However, our first stop was at a Dresdachian stage site which produced a bumper crop of brooksella, so, win some, lose some. Stop 2 was an Albertan stage site where a few really nice trilobite finds kind of made up for the scarcity.

On Monday, October 29, 2007, Dr. Roger Sauterer will present a noon lecture titled Fast Times in the Cretaceous: The Life and Times of Tyrannosaurus rex. The seminar will be held at UAB, in the Alumni Auditorium at Hill University Center. The lecture is sponsored by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.

A number of Birmingham attendees, including nine members and guests of BPS, made their way to the Anniston Museum of Natural History Thursday night to hear James Lamb speak on Alabama Dinosaurs. James is Curator of Paleontology at McWane Science Center in Birmingham,

Late Friday night, October 19th, the old familiar BPS website was retired, and the new, improved version was moved into production.  The new BPS website uses a Content Management System to manage the pages and photos, and provides a means for members to easily and quickly post information on the site.  The site now boasts a calendar to keep up with fossil related events, and a sneak preview o

The Sea Monsters exhibit that opened at McWane Science Center on October 5, 2007 took many months of hard work by McWane Science Center employees and others. One afternoon of this months-long effort was captured on film, and is presented here for your enjoyment.

The new "Sea Monsters" exhibit opened October 5th at McWane Science Center and will run until sometime in the spring. BPS members and other friends of McWane Science Center were treated to a preview of the exhibit on October 4th, showcasing the paleontology department's new "ocean" exhibit featuring life size casts of Protostega (turtle), Clidastes (mosasaur),

The fossil exhibit Sea Monsters is opening at McWane Science Center October 5, 2007.

In addition a new IMAX movie from National Geographic titled Sea Monsters, will also open at McWane October 5. Many of the creatures on exhibit are showcased in this IMAX movie.