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Featured Paleontologist
We interviewed Rebecca Hunt-Foster, the first and only District Paleontologist in the Bureau of Land Management. Read more.
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Club Corner: Friends of Stonerose
Nestled in the mountains of northeastern Washington state, Stonerose began as the result of a serendipitous trip undertaken by Wes Wehr and a teenager by the name of Kirk Johnson (now Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History). Read More.
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Featured Fossil
Our featured fossil was submitted by Megan Higbee Hendrickson, a middle school science teacher in Tampa, Florida. New to paleontology, it was her first exciting discovery. Read more.
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Recognizing the Contributions of Amateurs
The Paleontological Society and the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology are among professional scientific groups that recognize the contributions of amateurs. Read More.
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Amateur Spotlight: David Kohls
David Kohls received the 2009 Harrell L. Strimple Award in recognition of his significant contributions to paleontology including the donation of over 72,000 pieces of fossiliferous shale to the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. Read more.
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Education: ROCKS: Real Opportunities to Connect Kids with Scientists
With funding from the Paleontological Society, this project based at the Natural History Museum of Utah includes a suite of videos that follows a fossil's journey from its discovery at a field site, to preparing the fossil in the lab and, finally, cataloging it in collections. Read more.
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Research: Megalodon Became Extinct 2.6 Million Years Ago
Read how Catalina Pimiento and Chris Clements used the Paleobiology Database to estimate when Megalodon became extinct...and what coincided with its extinction. Read More.
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