This month BPS members went to Perry County, in south Alabama, and collected in a creek where it has been said, this is the furtherest north that cretaceous material is found. It has been a while since we collected at this sit
The September 2009 meeting will occur on the 2nd Monday of the month due to the Labor Day Holiday. See you on September 14, 2009.
Our speaker will be Jun Ebersole, Curator at the McWane Science Center. His topic will be "The Evolution of our Perception of Neandertals". This talk will examine how the scientific and popular views of Neandertals and cavemen have changed over the past 100 years.
Update: Check your schedule for the air time, the show is now scheduled for 10pm ET, which is 9pm Central time here in Birmingham. The mosasaur episode is titled "T-rex of the Deep". The "Terror Bird" episode is now scheduled for 8pm Central time.
Since many BPS club members are interested in both Paleontology and Archeology, it seemed important to find out a little bit about the culture which might have made the pottery chards which many found in the creek on the June 2
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.
