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ISPH 2013 – Inside fossil bones and teeth

Last week was the Second International Symposium on Paleohistology (ISPH.2013), hosted by the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana.  Histology – the study of tissue – is a growing field in paleontology and is infiltrating all aspects of paleontological research. Paleontologists, specifically, study bone and tooth tissue of fossil and modern organisms.  Bone histologyContinueContinue reading “ISPH 2013 – Inside fossil bones and teeth”

Graduation News!

Elizabeth, holding one of her thesis specimens (M. columbi) in the Vertebrate Paleontology collections at the Sternberg Museum.Congratulations to Elizabeth Deering – Fort Hays State University’s most recent graduate from the paleontology program in the Department of Geosciences.  Elizabeth recently defended her Master’s thesis entitled “Identification and Paleoecology of Mammoth Teeth from the Vertebrate Paleontology CollectionContinueContinue reading “Graduation News!”