Congratulations to Paleontology Collections Manager Christina Byrd for her award-winning photo! Representing the Paleontology Department, Christina entered photos from her work at the Museum in the American Geosciences Institute’s “Life as a Geoscientist” photo contest. The photo titled “Bringing fossils into the digital age” won first place in the “Data Visualization” category. It shows twoContinueContinue reading “Life as a Geoscientist”
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Paleo-girls and boys and their toys
There are a lot of cool toys out there. Not just Research Institute Legos, Paleontology Barbie, and a new generation of Jurassic World figurines, but toys that are products of technological advancement. What’s even cooler is that we have applied many of them to help advance our scientific knowledge. Paleontology is no exception – technologyContinueContinue reading “Paleo-girls and boys and their toys”
You’re doing WHAT to those bones?
Cross section through the femur of a fossilbird called Hesperornis. Fossil bonespreserve many of the same structural featuresthat can be observed in modern bones. In thisimage, the marrow cavity is the black portionin the middle, and the bone tissue is thegolden/brown.Fossils are not renewable resources. While there is the potential that animals alive today mayContinueContinue reading “You’re doing WHAT to those bones?”
Laura E. Wilson, Ph.D. 