Bones of Fearsome Dinosaurs Found
Submitted by admin2 on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 7:15pmFossil hunters say they have discovered bones of two massive meat-eating dinosaurs in Africa.
Tiny Pterodactyl Found in China
Submitted by admin2 on Mon, 02/11/2008 - 11:03pmABC News reported that a tiny pterodactyl with curved toes has been found in the Liaoning region of China.
Finding Your Inner Fish - Feb. 21, 2008, Tuscaloosa
Dr. Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago and Field Museum will present the lecture "Finding Your Inner Fish: New Discoveries on the Shift From Fish to Land-Living Animal".
The lecture will be held 7;30 pm, February 21, 2008 at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, in the Biology Auditorium, across the street from the Geological Survey office. This talk is part of the ALLELE 2007-2008 presentations - Alabama Lectures on Life's Evolution. All lectures are open to the public.
BPS February 4, 2008 Meeting
Dr. Carl Stock, paleontology professor at University of Alabama, will give the program on "Biogeographic Barriers".
Background: Dr. Stock received his PhD from the University North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has been teaching paleontology and geology and the University of Alabama for a little over 30 years. His research focus includes topics in invertebrate paleontology, stromatoporoids, paleobiogeography, and Ordovician/Silurian/Devonian.
Photos from old BPS Field Trips added
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 3:03amBPS January 7, 2008 Meeting **UPDATED**
The program will be on "Ingersoll Shale", by Terry Knight, a grad student at Auburn University. Some amazing fossils, including insects, have been found in this formation. His thesis is titled “Exceptionally Preserved Soft-Bodied Fossils of the Ingersoll shale, an Upper Cretaceous Konservat-Lagerstätte in the Eutaw Formation of East-central Alabama".
Click for pictures of the dig in the Ingersoll shale.
Last Minute Program Change for December
Submitted by admin2 on Mon, 12/03/2007 - 10:37pmBPS December 3, 2007 Meeting
This month's program will be "Eastern Dinosaurs" by James Lamb.
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 meeting. The business meeting begins at 7:00, followed by the program around 7:45 or 8pm.
November 17, 2007 - Mississippian Fossils, St. Clair Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 12/01/2007 - 11:00pmThis month 14 people showed up for the BPS trip and collected in Mississippian age fossils in St. Clair county, Alabama. Along with the perfect brachopods and horned coral, quite a few trilobite parts were found in the Ft. Payne chert.
Photos courtesy Martha Ivey and Vicki Lais.
7.4 Magnitude Caribbean Quake
Submitted by admin2 on Thu, 11/29/2007 - 9:43pmThese links were provided by Sandy Ebersole of the Geological Survey of Alabama (GSA) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama:
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