By Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) and Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! Earlier this week a new paper from CCNHM paleontologist Robert Boessenecker was published in the open access journal PLoS One, reporting new anatomical details for the extinct dolphin Albertocetus…
Yearly Archives: 2017
Friday Fossil Feature – 4 Specimens are Dolphinately Better Than 1
Tagged with: Amateurs, Beach, Donations, Ear Bones, Earbones, Evolution, Fossil, fossils, Friday Fossil Feature, Hearing, NYIT, Oligocene, Origin of Species, Research, South Carolina, Type Specimen, Whales, Xenorophidae
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Friday Fossil Feature – Sinking Your Teeth into Coronodon
By Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) Happy Fossil Friday! Last week saw the publication of a new paper naming our spectacularly preserved toothed baleen whale Coronodon havensteini. The article was published in Current Biology by Jonathan Geisler and Brian Beatty from NYIT,…
Tagged with: Coronodon, Evolution, Filter Feeding, Fossil, fossils, Friday Fossil Feature, Holotype, Museum, Mysticetes, NYIT, Oligocene, Published, Research, South Carolina, Teeth, Type Specimen, Whales
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Friday Fossil Feature – SeAVP and the Gray Fossil Site
by Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) and Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) Happy Fossil Friday! Last week, museum staff and volunteers traveled to Gray, Tennessee for the 10th annual Southeastern Association of Vertebrate Paleontology. What’s in Gray, Tennessee? Why, the Gray Fossil Site, of…
Tagged with: Alligator, Fossil, fossils, Friday Fossil Feature, Gray Fossil Site, Mastodon, Miocene, Museum, Red Panda, Research, Research Visit, Tapir, Tennessee, Volunteers, Walrus, Xenorophidae
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Friday Fossil Feature – 2017 Aurora Fossil Fest!
By Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) and Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) Happy Fossil Friday! Over Memorial Day weekend, museum paleontologists Bobby and Sarah Boessenecker traveled to the town of Aurora, North Carolina for the 24th annual Aurora Fossil Festival. Aurora is tiny –…
Tagged with: Amateurs, Aurora, Beach, Cone Whale, Donations, Ear Bones, Earbones, Fossil, Fossil Fest, Fossil Festival, fossils, Friday Fossil Feature, Lee Creek, Lee Creek Mine, Museum, Oligocene
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Friday Fossil Feature – It would be Folly to pass this site up
By Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) and Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Folly Beach is a popular destination near us here in Charleston, and thousands of swimmers, sun tanners, and surfers flock to the beach during the summer and relatively warm spring and…
Tagged with: Amateurs, Beach, Bulla, Collecting, Donations, Ear Bones, Folly Beach, fossils, Friday Fossil Feature, South Carolina
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