By Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! Today we’re writing to thank local fossil collector, and founder of the Palmetto Paleontological Society, Mark Bunce. Mark has a passion for fossils, and started our local fossil club 2 years ago;…
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Friday Fossil Feature – An Over-Whale-Ming Donation!
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Friday Fossil Feature – whale, whale, whale, it seems all is not lost after all!
By Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) and Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) Happy Fossil Friday! Today we’re looking at Agorophius pygmaeus, one of the first named odontocetes from North America. Agorophius has a long, complicated history – and it starts right here, in…
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Friday Fossil Feature – The head bone’s connected to the… neck bone…
By Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! Fossils don’t prepare themselves, and rarely come out of the ground looking the way you seem them on display in a museum. Here at the CCNHM, we are building a team of dedicated,…
Tagged with: Evolution, Fossil, fossils, Friday Fossil Feature, Oligocene, Preparation, South Carolina, Volunteers, Whales
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Friday Fossil Feature – Thinking of a Good Walrus Pun is No Easy Tusk…
by Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) and Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) Happy Fossil Friday! Did you know that walruses used to live in the Southeastern US? From about 4 million years ago to as recently as 300,000 years ago these tusked behemoths were…
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Friday Fossil Feature – An investi-Gator of the Oligocene of South Carolina
by Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! This week we take a look at Gavialosuchus americanus. Gavialosuchus americanus wasn’t actually an alligator; rather, they were more closely related to today’s gharials and crocodiles. Crocodile puns, however, don’t seem to have…
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Friday Fossil Feature – Kogia let us tell you about earbones again?
By Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) and Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) For Fossil Friday this week here’s a couple of pygmy sperm whale earbones from the recently acquired Rita McDaniel collection at the Mace Brown Museum of Natural History. McDaniel led mine tours…
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Friday Fossil Feature – Holy Bullae, Batman!
By Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! Recently, CCNHM received a large donation of fossils from the famous PCS mine in Aurora, NC – known to paleontologists as Lee Creek. This is a mecca for fossils from the mid-Miocene through…
Friday Fossil Feature – ammonite or am I right?
By Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! Ammonites are an amazing group of fossils that can be found all over the world today. They were an incredibly diverse group of cephalopods, arising in the early Devonian (~400 million years ago)…
Friday Fossil Feature – The Tully Monster
By Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! Here at CCNHM we have a wonderful collection that was donated from the Mazon Creek Fossil Beds in Illinois. These beds have provided hundreds of specimens of strange organisms that have been exquisitely…
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