Discovery Channel Megabeasts - Mosasaur Episode featuring Paleontologist James Lamb - Sept 13, 2009
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.
June 13-14, 2009 - Artifacts, Butler Co, AL
Submitted by Ron Beerman on Mon, 08/17/2009 - 10:03pmSince 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 2009 BPS field trip.
June 13-14, 2009 - Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils, Butler Co, AL
Submitted by admin2 on Mon, 08/17/2009 - 9:57pmThis 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 members camped out for the weekend. Sunday the sun was out, and it made us grateful for the cloud cover on Saturday!
The sandy beaches and gravel areas yielded up shark teeth, ray teeth, some nautiloid sections, and recent mammal material which was sometimes as fasinating as the fossils.
Birds of a Feather - Part 3 - Blog by James Lamb
Submitted by admin2 on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 8:48pmWe 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
July 11, 2009 - Cretaceous Fossils, Greene Co, AL
Submitted by admin2 on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 2:17pmBPS 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 Annual Fossil Festival
BPS Meeting August 3, 2009
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.
Birds of a Feather - Part 2 - Blog by James Lamb
Submitted by admin2 on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 6:21pmThere 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.
Birds of a Feather - Part 1 - Blog by James Lamb
Submitted by admin2 on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 12:18amThe 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.
BPS meeting July 6, 2009
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.
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