Birmingham Paleontological Society

CHANGE IN DATE AND LOCATION

See March 7, 2009 for details.

Dr. Donald R. Prothero: "Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It matters."

7:30 pm, March 9th, 2009.
Biology auditorium, University of Alabama, Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL.

BPS members gathered in NW Alabama for a full weekend field-trip  February 7 and 8.   We couldn't have begged, pleaded or prayed for better weather!  Since we were slogging through a great deal of mud culling for Mississippian fossils, the unseasonal warmth was a treat!  Lots of conglomerate "collections" were found, featuring the remains of archimedes, brachiopods and crinoids.

The Animal Planet Network has scheduled a couple of interesting paleo related programs on Thursday, February 12.  Check your listings for exact times in your area.

Nigel Marven travels back to the Cretaceous Montana: his mission - to rescue Tyrannosaurus Rex. He coaxes two baby T-rex through the time portal and into the park. He names them Terence and Matilda.

The next regular meeting of the BPS is Monday, February 2, 2009, 7-9 pm at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama.  The

This month the group had a "Scouting Outing" to a new location in Walker county.  An initial quick survey of the site a few days before turned up few fossils, so there was some concern about taking a group.  We also planned for two more stops, and with this group, even heading off for dinner can be fun! We need not have been concerned, plenty of fossils were found by everyone.

If you wanted a day/weekend out in the woods, you couldn't have custom-ordered more perfect weather or a more perfect spot to enjoy the outdoors.   A small group of BPS’ers set out for Butler County to a site owned by a member’s relatives.  They kindly let us in there at least once a year and a big THANK YOU goes out to them from BPS.    We use the word “intrepid” a lot to describ

The next meeting of the BPS will be Monday, January 5, 2009, 7-9 pm at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama.  

The speaker will be James Lamb, Curator of Paleontology at McWane Science Center.

Once again, BPS took a trip south to Dallas county, Alabama, to search in the extensive Cretaceous chalk gullies found there.  This was our last gully trip of the season, since hunting season is about to start, so we were in a frantic hurry to collect the items we had previously flagged, and find as much as we could so it could be preserved, and not get washed down a gully, and potentially los