Conservation is at the forefront of many people’s minds – especially those working in natural history fields. Earth is in the midst of a major biodiversity crisis with extinction rates estimated between 1000 and 10,000 times background (“normal”) extinction rates (source: World Wildlife Fund). Unlike other mass extinction events like the one that decimated dinosaurContinueContinue reading “A Place in Conservation for Paleobiology”
Category Archives: Paleoecology
Sea Turtles in Kansas?!
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?!”
Sternberg scientists hit the airwaves!
Though it may not be news to paleontologists and visitors to the Sternberg Museum, not everyone in the country knows that Kansas was covered by an ocean 85 million years. To address this, Sternberg paleontologists had the opportunity to take to a national stage and talk about the ocean that covered Kansas in the Cretaceous. OnContinueContinue reading “Sternberg scientists hit the airwaves!”
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!”
Laura E. Wilson, Ph.D. 