Protostega was a large sea turtle the lived in the ocean that covered Kansas and central North America 80 million years ago. New research by FHSU paleontologist Dr. Laura Wilson shows that the bone tissue microstructure (osteohistology) of Protostega reveals growth patterns similar to modern leatherback sea turtles (the largest sea turtles alive today) withContinueContinue reading “Sea Turtles in Kansas?!”
Category Archives: Histology
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?”
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”
Laura E. Wilson, Ph.D. 