Birmingham Paleontological Society

BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st

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

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

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

(Pictures courtesy Jan Novak and Vicki Lais) 

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.

This Saturday in late May was HOT!

Many of you will remember our January speaker, Terry Knight, a grad

The April 2008 field trip brought beautiful weather and a nice relaxing weekend. Claire, Martha and Leisa were able to get to the site on Friday and enjoyed an evening gazing up at the stars and listening to the night birds. Saturday morning brought the arrival of the rest of the field trip party. Members ventured up stream and down stream. Several shark teeth and ray teeth were found, along with cochina stone embedded with turritella, gastropods, and nautiloids. A few Native American pottery shards were also found.

Our June speaker will be Jon Gilliam of the University of Alabama, who will be presenting his research on Cretaceous predacious shell borings found in Sumter County, Alabama.

George Phillips, paleontology curator at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science will be speaking to us about Cretaceous paleo research. Here is some advance information: