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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) usually has their eyes on the sky, but this week a papercame out describing a fossil found at their Maryland Space Flight Center. Ray Stanford was dropping off his wife, Sheila, back at NASA after having lunch together when Ray spotted an interesting

I’m back! I spent the last two weeks of December and a lot of January finishing and sending out She Found Fossils, the book about women in paleontology that Abby West, Amy Gardiner, and I wrote. I also went to the annual Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology conference

This week was jam-packed with news, so instead of only talking about one story, I’m going to cover 4 of them. First: A new catfish from the Upper Eocene (56-33 million years ago) of Egypt. This [paper] was published by lead author Sanaa El-Sayed, who is now the first

This is the last week of 2016 and so instead of writing a fresh post, I’m going to point you in the direction of a few “Top Paleontology Finds/Art/etc. of 2016” that other bloggers have written. I reported on many of these top finds in this blog,

Last week, a new discovery made headlines – a bird tail preserved in amber. You may remember that in July I talked about a pair of bird wings trapped in amber. This specimen comes from the same country, Myanmar, and is from the mid-Cretaceous (around 99 million years ago). The specimen

Last week, construction workers unearthed the remains of a woolly giant while expanding Los Angeles’ (California) Purple Metro Line. They took great care and stopped construction so that paleontologists could assess the fossils, jacket them, and remove them to the safety of a lab. The fossils will end up at