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,…
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Friday Fossil Feature – The head bone’s connected to the… neck bone…
Tagged with: Evolution, Fossil, Friday Fossil Feature, Oligocene, Preparation, South Carolina, Volunteers, Whales
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Posted in fossils
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…
Tagged with: Earbones, Evolution, Fossil, Friday Fossil Feature, Lee Creek Mine, Pliocene, Research, Whales
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Posted in fossils
How we spent our Spring Break
By Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Spring break: a time for fun, relaxation, road trips, and partying… for students at least. For visiting researchers Dr. Morgan Churchill and Dr. Brian Beatty, it was a prime time to visit the collections at CCNHM…
Tagged with: Evolution, Fossil, Laser Scanning, Mysticetes, NYIT, Research, Research Visit, Spring Break, Teeth, Whales
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Posted in fossils, Museum
