This month the group traveled to Butler County, Alabama, to a sandy creek which runs through early Tertiary and late Cretaceous material. The weather was overcast on Saturday, making collecting very pleasant. A number of memb
We have now arrived at a very interesting point where the discoveries of the past two decades have illustrated how difficult it is to define exactly where feathered theropod dinosaurs leave off and birds begin. Many of the features once thought to be unique to birds, like a wishbone, for example, have been identified in a variety of dinosaurs.
BPS 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 State Park and the Falls of the Ohio Foundation announce the 2009 Falls Fossil Festival! This, our 15th annual event, will be held September 19 - 20 at one of the world's most spectacular naturally exposed fossil beds! Visitors are encouraged to explore our rich Middle Devonian patch reef packed with fossils on the riverbed at the Falls of the Ohio. Look for giant colonial corals, horn corals up to four feet long, trilobites, and numerous other types of marine organisms.
The next regular meeting of the BPS is Monday, August 3, 2009, 7-9 pm at
the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama. Logan King will
present a lecture titled "Dinosaurs of the Southeastern United States".
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.
There 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.
The 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.
The next regular meeting of the BPS is Monday, July 6, 2009, 7-9 pm at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama. Leisa Whitlow will present a lecture titled "Fossils and the American Indian".
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.
On 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 Mississ
Old 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.
