Birmingham, AL skyline on Birmingham, UK pamphlet

Submitted by admin2 on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 3:48pm

Birmingham council uses picture of city skyline in leaflet to encourage civic pride... but it's Birmingham, Alabama

[Just for grins, not fossil related at all! - - BPS Admin]

2008 Falls Fossil Festival - Falls of the Ohio State Park, Sept. 20-21, 2008

Falls of the Ohio State Park will be hosting the annual Falls Fossil Festival at one of the world's most spectacular naturally exposed fossil beds!

Date:

Saturday, September 20, 2008 - 9:30am

City site was dinosaur dining room

Submitted by admin2 on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 3:50pm

Edmonton, Canada - A dinosaur bone bed in southwest Edmonton that served as a feeding area for the direct ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex has revealed that two dinosaurs, thought to have liv

BPS August 4, 2008 Meeting

Our speaker for the August 4th BPS meeting will be Dr. Andrew K. Rindsberg. Dr. Rindsberg is a paleontologist (specialized background in trace fossils), and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at University of West Alabama. His presentation for the upcoming BPS meeting will be: “Horseshoe crabs through time and space: one of the most famous living fossils, its modern habits and ancient remains, including trace and body fossils."

BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st

Date:

Monday, August 4, 2008 - 7:00pm

Priceless 80m year old fossilised haddock discovered by pensioner 15 years after he picked it up from the beach

Submitted by admin2 on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 3:14pm

Staring balefully out over the garden pond, it was one of the more unusual items in Peter parvin's rockery.

McWane Science Center is 10 years old !

Submitted by admin2 on Sun, 07/13/2008 - 12:11am

McWane Science Center, BPS's home for the past 2 1/2 years, celebrated their 10th birthday by throwing a Birthday Blast party July 12th, which featured a visit

June 28, 2008 - Cretaceous Fossils, Sumter County, AL

Submitted by admin2 on Sun, 07/06/2008 - 8:32pm

Alabama›Sumter

Trip to Sumter County, Alabama. . . more to follow, wanted to get pictures up for everyone.

(Pictures courtesy Jan Novak and Vicki Lais)

BPS July 7, 2008 Meeting

Our July meeting will be held 7-7 at 7pm. The speaker will be Dr. Ron Buta, a professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Alabama. He has been actively involved in collection and documentation of fossil trackways from the Steven Minkin Footprint Site for a number of years, and is also internationally known for his research on galaxies and astrophysics.

Date:

Monday, July 7, 2008 - 7:00pm