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Category Archives: Modern critters
“Stories from Skeletons” exhibit at VMNH
The main exhibit hall at VMNH is the Harvest Foundation Hall of Ancient Life. There are five structural columns in the Ancient Life Hall, and these columns have cases built around them. Since the building opened we’ve used those cases … Continue reading
Squirrel!
For almost a year now, I’ve been alluding to research on squirrels, but I didn’t want to go into detail until the results were published. That paper was finally released online yesterday, so now I’m free to discuss it. This … Continue reading
Posted in Modern critters, Paleontological techniques
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Exploding club mosses
I arrived back home from the SVP meeting a few days ago, and I’m still trying to catch up with all the things I ignored over the last 2 weeks. At some point I’ll add some additional posts about the … Continue reading
Parfrey’s Glen
Thursday morning Tim and I began driving from Martinsville to Minneapolis for the Geological Society of America meeting. Tim is currently taking a geology class from Brett and me, which includes several field labs. A site we picked for one … Continue reading
Virginia Academy of Science meeting
I spent today attending the annual meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, held this year at the University of Richmond. Specifically, I was attending the Natural History and Biodiversity section, which included 15 talks and 4 posters. While I wasn’t presenting … Continue reading
SeAVP meeting afternoon session
After lunch, Timothy Gaudin, Greg McDonald, and Ascanio Rincón kicked off the afternoon session by looking at the relationships within the sloth family Megalonychidae, which includes such diverse forms as the extinct giant ground sloth Megalonyx and the extant two-toed sloth Choloepus (above … Continue reading
Posted in Carmel Church Chondrichthyans, Carmel Church Quarry, Chesapeake Group, Conferences, Modern critters
Tagged SeAVP, Taphonomy
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SeAVP meeting morning session
The SeAVP meeting has grown over the years, and with 28 presentations and posters I’ve decided to break it up into two posts. The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of Vertebrate Paleontology got underway this morning with a … Continue reading
Posted in "Caroline", Carmel Church Quarry, Chesapeake Group, Conferences, Modern critters
Tagged Dinosaurs, SeAVP, Taphonomy
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Lead-in to SeAVP
One of the great joys of attending paleontology meetings is the opportunity to visit the host museum (there usually is one). Doing paleontological research generally requires visiting museums to see specimens , but travel is expensive and paleontologists are never … Continue reading
And now for something a little different…
It seems that one of my dogs, Molly, doesn’t like large animals. I’m not sure why this should be the case, since she’s pretty much never been around any large animals except the deer that occasionally wander into our backyard. … Continue reading
Posted in Modern critters
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RC Conference on Student Research and Creativity
I spent Saturday at Roanoke College, attending the RC Conference on Student Research and Creativity. Roanoke has put together an impressive formal conference for students to demonstrate their academic achievements. The conference lasted all day and had multiple concurrent sessions, which … Continue reading
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