Bones of Fearsome Dinosaurs Found
Fossil hunters say they have discovered bones of two massive meat-eating dinosaurs in Africa.
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Tiny Pterodactyl Found in China
ABC News reported that a tiny pterodactyl with curved toes has been found in the Liaoning region of China. It was found by a research group led by Xiaolin Wang of the Chinese Academy of Science.
A beautifully preserved fossil of a tiny pterosaur suggests that the giant pterodactyls that roamed the skies during the late Cretaceous period may have come from much smaller, tree-dwelling ancestors.
The new fossil, which was discovered in 2004 in western Liaoning province, China, is about 120 million years old.
Finding Your Inner Fish - Feb. 21, 2008, Tuscaloosa
Dr. Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago and Field Museum will present the lecture "Finding Your Inner Fish: New Discoveries on the Shift From Fish to Land-Living Animal".
The lecture will be held 7;30 pm, February 21, 2008 at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, in the Biology Auditorium, across the street from the Geological Survey office. This talk is part of the ALLELE 2007-2008 presentations - Alabama Lectures on Life's Evolution. All lectures are open to the public.
Date:
Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 7:30pm
BPS February 4, 2008 Meeting
Dr. Carl Stock, paleontology professor at University of Alabama, will give the program on "Biogeographic Barriers".
Background: Dr. Stock received his PhD from the University North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has been teaching paleontology and geology and the University of Alabama for a little over 30 years. His research focus includes topics in invertebrate paleontology, stromatoporoids, paleobiogeography, and Ordovician/Silurian/Devonian.
Date:
Monday, February 4, 2008 - 7:00pm
Photos from old BPS Field Trips added
Some of us have been digging into the old shoeboxes containing field trip photos from years past, including 1989, 1990, 1991, and 1993. Check out the field trip page and take a look at the photos, you may not even recognize some of our current members as they looked 15 - 20 years ago!
BPS January 7, 2008 Meeting **UPDATED**
The program will be on "Ingersoll Shale", by Terry Knight, a grad student at Auburn University. Some amazing fossils, including insects, have been found in this formation. His thesis is titled “Exceptionally Preserved Soft-Bodied
Fossils of the Ingersoll shale, an Upper Cretaceous
Konservat-Lagerstätte in the Eutaw Formation of East-central Alabama".
Click for pictures of the dig in the Ingersoll shale.
Date:
Monday, January 7, 2008 - 7:00pm
Last Minute Program Change for December
For all of those who came to the December meeting expecting a program on "Eastern Dinosaurs", our sincere apologies. James Lamb has been under the weather the past few days and at the last minute decided to speak on "Volcanoes" in hopes his voice would last long enough to do the shorter program. The much longer "Eastern Dinosaurs" program will be rescheduled at our earliest opportunity, probably for the January or February meeting.
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BPS December 3, 2007 Meeting
This month's program will be "Eastern Dinosaurs" by James Lamb.
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.
Date:
Monday, December 3, 2007 - 7:00pm
November 17, 2007 - Mississippian Fossils, St. Clair Co, AL
This month 14 people showed up for the BPS trip and collected in Mississippian age fossils in St. Clair county,
7.4 Magnitude Caribbean Quake
These links were provided by Sandy Ebersole of the Geological Survey of Alabama (GSA) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama:
Details of the magnitude 7.4 earthquake in the Martinique Region, Windward Islands that occurred on Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 1900:19 UTC can be found on the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program site.
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