Category Archives: Penguins

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”