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Social engagement in Dino 101
Happy new year folks! There are no pictures in this post, SORRY NOT SORRY. A group of researchers at the University of Alberta recently published a study on learner engagement in Dino 101, and I...
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Cool stuff at my museum.
Today I wanted to share some of the cool stuff the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences does besides palaeontology! My home is in the Nature Research Center, the new addition to the museum that...
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Superb Lemur Sunday
On this most hallowed of Super Bowl Sundays, I watched some lemurs instead of football. Lemurs are very busy at all times! The paleo crew from the museum and NCSU decided to visit the Duke Lemur...
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Ankylosaurs by the sea
Ankylosaurs, like probably most other dinosaurs, were landlubbing, terrestrial animals without obvious aquatic adaptations. And yet, surprisingly, their fossils are found in marine sedimentary...
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Ankylosaur Fight Club
Pseudoplocephalus has a new home! WELCOME! Over the many years I’ve spent thinking about ankylosaurs, I’ve amassed a not insubstantial collection of ankylosaur stuff. And one of the things that I’ve...
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The Wild Wild West
I’ve just returned from a Turonian dinosaur hunt in New Mexico! Dinosaurs from this age are extremely rare in North America (and globally as well). Sea levels were at their highest at this time and...
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Get Your Kicks on Route 66
Ooh yeah, a fancy car! This post doesn’t have dinosaurs in it, sorry! One of the fun things about traveling around the southwest US is coming across these little places with tons of character. On this...
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A Geology Road Trip through North Carolina: Part 1, the Mountains
My time in Raleigh is nearing an end, so it’s high time that I share some of the interesting geological sights I’ve seen since I moved here in 2014! Let’s take a mini virtual road trip across North...
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TriloBITES
We had a palaeontology get-together today and I made these bad boys: These are my favourite cookies to make and now, dear blog readers, I will share with you the way of the Trilobite Cookie. I first...
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A Geology Road Trip through North Carolina: Part 2, the Piedmont
Next up on our NC geology road trip, we’re stopping on the Piedmont. A big swath of central North Carolina is represented by this physiographic region, which basically equates to the foothills of the...
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A Geology Road Trip through North Carolina: Part 3, Barrier Islands
Well it took way longer to get to the third and final part of this little post series, but I guess that’s what happens when you’re moving ‘internationally’ while preparing for a conference. C’est la...
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Save Mongolia’s Dinosaurs!
Hello blog friends! Today I’d like to highlight an important funding campaign that needs your help: Save Mongolia’s Dinosaurs! This campaign is organized by Bolortsetseg Minjin and Thea Boodhoo through...
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Rhinos and dinos and whales, oh my!
A few weeks ago I took a road trip down to visit the smaller Arbour sibling who is currently based at the University of Washington, and we made a point of visiting the Burke Museum on campus. The...
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Party Like It’s 508 Ma
That post title is horrific but it’s the best I could do. I hope nobody dies from awkward Will Smith musical references. Please feel free to get or not get jiggy with the rest of this post. ONWARDS!...
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Your Project is Good Enough for a Talk
I’m back from yet another whirlwind week of conferencing, since the annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting (this year in scenic Salt Lake City) just wrapped up last weekend. I’ll share some...
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SVP in SLC
This year’s SVP in Salt Lake City was chock full of exciting dino stuff. My first visit to the Natural History Museum of Utah since its move to a brand-new building (I last visited in December 2008,...
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Evolution at the Zoo
Zoos, aquaria, and natural history museums all showcase amazing biological diversity in their exhibits, but after years of visiting both kinds of institutions across the globe, I’ve noticed that zoos...
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So You Want to Make a Time-Calibrated Phylogenetic Tree
Are you a palaeontologist interested in incorporating phylogenetic comparative methods into your research? Would you like to increase your toolkit of hypothesis-testing analyses for fossil-related...
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Life on the Edge
Storytime! When I was an undergraduate student at Dalhousie University, BACK IN THE DAY, I spent my summers making slides of rocks brought up by drills from offshore Nova Scotia and identifying and...
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I got all my rexes with me
Tyrannosaurs: Meet the Family is a traveling exhibition all about everyone’s favourite prehistoric predators, showcasing some classic dinosaurs and new discoveries. It’s currently hanging out at the...
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