Nic Minter is a visiting paleontologist from the Univ. of Bristol in the UK. Dr. Minter specializes in coal-age fossil footprints/trackways. He is visiting the fossil trackways at McWane and the Alabama Museum of Natural History over the next few weeks and will be speaking at the Dept. of Geological Sciences' seminar on Wednesday, Sept. 24th. His talk will be held on the Univ. of Alabama campus in Smith Hall (the AL museum), room 205, at noon. The title of his talk will be: "Terrestrial trace fossils from the Permian of the southwest USA”.

3D Wall of Photos

Now you can view BPS trip photos in a very unique way, as if they are posted on a wall of a huge art gallery!  There is a new menu link in the left sidebar "3D Photo Wall" that links to all the trip photos since the website was upgraded in 2007 (prior photos are housed on a different server).  Download and install the free

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 the meeting. The program begins at

Just what the heck does this mean, right?  Cool Iris is a new browser add-on that makes viewing large numbers of pictures a cool experience!  Many web sites, including Google and Flickr, are Cool Iris enabled (or the old name, PicLens, may also be seen.)  We are still awaiting an upgrade to our content management system software for the final easy to maintain code (using mediaRSS).  However

A small group of dedicated fossil hounds arrived in Dallas County to assist James Lamb in searching for ancient bones and teeth of extinct animals in the Late Cretaceous chalk gullies.  Suffering miserably in the heat of the day where temperatures were recorded at 109 degrees, our spirits were frequently lifted by the amazing fossils that were being found.  We had the opportunity to search in

Alabama Summers - Hot, Hot, and more Hot!

Fossil Workshop in SW Alabama

This fossil workshop is sponsored by the Geological Survey of Alabama, The University of West Alabama, and Discovering Alabama.

The cost of the workshop is $15. Science teachers will receive 8 CEU's, a field guidebook, Lost Worlds in Alabama Rocks by Jim Lacefield, two Discovering Alabama DVDs, a geologic map of Alabama, fact sheets on Alabama fossils, a box lunch, a fossil kit, and more.

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]

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