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…
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Friday Fossil Feature – 4 Specimens are Dolphinately Better Than 1
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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…
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Friday Fossil Feature – A Closer Look at the Echo Hunter
By Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) and Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! We all know that odontocetes (toothed whales and dolphins) use echolocation – this bio-sonar allows them to find their way under water and hunt their prey. They send a…
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Friday Fossil Feature – Cotylocara macei
By Robert Boessenecker(@CoastalPaleo) and Sarah Boessenecker(@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! Our featured fossil this week is Cotylocara macei, an extinct dolphin from South Carolina. Cotylocara macei was named in 2014 by Jonathan Geisler, Matt Colbert, and College of Charleston Professor Emeritus…
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