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), Pachyrhizodus (fish), Xiphactinus (XL fish), and Tylosaurus (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.
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.
Members of the Birmingham Paleontological Society held a fossil exhibit at the Homewood Public Library from September 1 until September 30. On Sunday, September 30, an Open House was held for the public, which included refreshments, a short dinosaur movie, and best of all according to the kids, a sand pile where they could search for their very own fossils.
A trip to a quarry in the Mississippian age, Fort Payne chert was on the schedule for BPS' field trip in September. It was a beautiful day with a good turnout.
Last day of BPS exhibit "Fossils of Alabama" in the Ellenburg Art Gallery at the
Homewood Public Library. On September 30 from 2:30 - 4:00 there will be an Open House for the public, with
hands on fossil displays, light refreshments, and a "screening for fossils" sand pile to
find your own fossils.
BPS is presenting a fossil exhibit again this year, for the entire month of September, 2007 titled "Fossils of Alabama" in the Ellenburg Art Gallery at the Homewood Public Library. It's open to the public at all hours the library is open. On Sunday, September 30, we will host an Open House in the Round Auditorium, with free fossils in the "sand pile", light refreshments, and hands-on fossil displays.
BPS regular monthly
meetings
are held
on the 1st
Monday of each
month at the McWane Science Center.
Program: Discussion and slideshow led by Greg Mestler on the theses - Ingersoll shale Lagerstatte written by Sean Bingham and Terry Knight. Visit to see paleo lab and new exhibits being installed.
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.
A trip to a non-working mine site to explore spoil piles for invertebrate fossils was on the menu for BPS's August field trip.
BPS presents "Fossils of Alabama" in the Ellenburg Art Gallery at the Homewood Public Library. Exhibit will be on display through September 30. On September 30 from 2:30 - 4:00 there will be an Open House, with hands on fossil displays and a "screening for fossils" sand pile to find your own fossils.
