Due to a last minute change to our program, this month's meeting will be a show and tell, so bring your favorite fossils and tell their story!
This meeting is free and open to the public.
Program starts at 7pm, business meeting will begin around 8:00.
Hoover Public Library, 200 Municipal Drive, Hoover, AL 35216
Downstairs, in the Theatre Conference Room.
It was a chilly, gorgeous, cold day to hunt Carboniferous/Mississippian fossils in a local rock quarry!
It was a gorgeous October day when the members of BPS set out for a field trip to a chalk gully. Just a tad bit warm and that day and even warmer while traversing the gullies. Thank goodness for the shade from the cedar trees casting a shadow for us. Lots of finds for the day consisting of Scapanorynchnus (Goblin Shark), Cretalamna, and Squalicorax (Crow Shark) teeth were found. James our Paleontologist guide had discovered a fish jaw and turtle shell near each other, not only was he was assisting us with ID's, he was excavating the skeletal finds to add to the museum collection. In addition to the fossilized shark teeth, lots of other marine fossils were found to add to collection of the members. A great time was had by all and look forward to going back soon!
We will be meeting at the HOMEWOOD LIBRARY this month. This is not our normal meeting location, but the Hoover Library is setting up voting booths for the Nov. 5 elections.
The annual National Fossil Day event at the Alabama Museum of Natural History will be held in Smith Hall on November 2, 2024 from 2pm until 3:30pm. This year's theme is "Dinosaurs". There will be exhibits by many different groups (including BPS), and some fossil give-aways. Since BPS is the only group in Alabama to ever find a new species of dinosaur, we will have some never-before-seen pictures from the dinosaur dig, and some short dig videos will be showing at our ex
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The events calendar has been updated to reflect new information.
Perhaps you wondered today why the BPS website looks so different...
BPS is pleased to announce that our new website is up and running! We've added a more friendly interface for mobile phones, with "hamburger" menus for ease of use. The site was updated earlier this year to use https (a secure method), rather than the more insecure http, which many large organizations, including museums, are not allowed to view. Nothing was lost in this conversion, and in fact, for the people behind the scenes, many new features have been added, making their job a bit easier.
