June 28, 2008 - Cretaceous Fossils, Sumter County, AL
Submitted by admin2 on Sun, 07/06/2008 - 8:32pmTrip to Sumter County, Alabama. . . more to follow, wanted to get pictures up for everyone.
(Pictures courtesy Jan Novak and Vicki Lais)
BPS July 7, 2008 Meeting
Our July meeting will be held 7-7 at 7pm. The speaker will be Dr. Ron Buta, a professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Alabama. He has been actively involved in collection and documentation of fossil trackways from the Steven Minkin Footprint Site for a number of years, and is also internationally known for his research on galaxies and astrophysics.
May 31, 2008 - Late Cretaceous Fossils, Dallas County, AL
Submitted by admin2 on Thu, 06/19/2008 - 8:04pmThis Saturday in late May was HOT!
Alabama Ingersoll Shale Article featured on the cover of Palaios Journal
Submitted by admin2 on Fri, 06/13/2008 - 11:12pmMany of you will remember our January speaker, Terry Knight, a grad
April 26, 2008 - Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils, Butler Co, AL
Submitted by Leisa Whitlow on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 10:58pmThe April 2008 field trip brought beautiful weather and a nice relaxing weekend. Claire, Martha and Leisa were able to get to the site on Friday and enjoyed an evening gazing up at the stars and listening to the night birds. Saturday morning brought the arrival of the rest of the field trip party. Members ventured up stream and down stream. Several shark teeth and ray teeth were found, along with cochina stone embedded with turritella, gastropods, and nautiloids. A few Native American pottery shards were also found.
BPS June 2, 2008 Meeting
Our June speaker will be Jon Gilliam of the University of Alabama, who will be presenting his research on Cretaceous predacious shell borings found in Sumter County, Alabama.
BPS May 5, 2008 Meeting
George Phillips, paleontology curator at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science will be speaking to us about Cretaceous paleo research. Here is some advance information:
Magnitude 5.2 Earthquake in Illinois on Friday
Submitted by admin2 on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 12:55amA rare 5.2 magnitude earthquake hit southern Illinois early on Friday, April 18, 2008. It was felt as far south as Memphis, TN, and as
Breathing New Life into Old Bones - Gray, Tennessee
Submitted by admin2 on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 1:50amA recent article in Gallivant magazine highlights a museum in East Tennessee where a road building project uncovered a huge repository of fossils, including camels, elephants, rhinos, and tapirs.
Dinosaur Uproar at the Huntsville Botanical Garden - Through July 15, 2008
The 112 acre Huntsville Botanical Garden will feature full sized dinosaur models through July 15, 2008. They will be displayed in life like settings using plants similar to those of ancient times. Included will be a 30 foot Edmontosaurus, a 30 foot Parasaurolophus, a 20 foot Allosaurus and many others.
--from Gallivant, Spring 2008
Original article below. Click to enlarge.
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