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50 Year Anniversary of Devonian Fossil Fish Find in Cleveland 

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the start of excavating fossil fishes from their area. In 1965 construction to create I-71 road connecting downtown Cleveland with its southwestern suburbs revealed a treasure trove of Devonian fossils. The animals fossilized after their remains sank to the ocean bottom and settled in to the sediment that would

Treasure Trove of late Triassic fossils discovered in Utah 

ksl.com Paleontologists have discovered a cliff-side in Utah brimming with fossils that offers a rare glimpse of desert life in western North America early in the age of dinosaurs. READ

Imaggeo on Mondays: Painted Hills after the storm. 

The geological record preserved at John Day Fossil beds, in Oregon, USA, is very special. Rarely can you study a continuous succession through changing climates quite like you can at this National Park in the USA. It is a treasure trove of some 60,000 plant and animal fossil specimens that were preserved over a period

Bottle-brush arthropod - Enalikter aphson 

A bizarre marine creature that roamed the oceans 425 million years ago has been revealed in unprecedented detail. The strange animal, named Enalikter aphson, was just under an inch (2.4cm) long and had a round head, no eyes and a whip like 'tongue' protruding from its mouth that it used to catch tiny sea creatures. At the end of its body there was a pincer attached to a primitive tail that may have been used as a weapon against predators. The extinct arthropod did not have a hard shell but was [...]

Big Water Dinosaur Festival 2013 

Dinosaurs were significant tourists, back in the day. Some enjoyed the area so much, they decided to stay. A few of them were even known to throw their weight around! The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) has provided a treasure trove of dinosaur discoveries. Of the 39 new dinosaur discoveries worldwide, nine have come from

Vancouver Graffiti II 

I love graffiti.  It is visceral, bold, colorful, Baroque, and wild.  You cannot but empathize with the lost souls who come to lonely places to make a mark Do a Google search for Vancouver graffiti.  It does not know of a treasure trove of superb graffiti.  Here are some pictures from a venerable art house

More Campus Fossil Hunting at Indiana University 

Today is National Fossil Day in the US, and I prepared for it with a recent visit to the geosciences building on the Indiana University campus. Students walking to the nearby schools of business or informatics may not realize that just through the building's doors, a treasure trove of fossils are available for viewing. So, once again snapped some photos of some of the fossils available for the IU community to enjoy. Though there aren't any dinosaurs, I'm sure this blog's audience will [...]

Google’s Landsat Video of Earth 

Google has prepared a video that describes the Landsat program and includes some spectacular views of earth. Now, Google Earth Engine allows scientists, researchers and the public to easily view and analyze this treasure trove of planetary

Darwin's lost fossils found down the back of a cupboard 

Fossils collected by a young Charles Darwin have been discovered in a gloomy corner of a British Geological Survey vault.The treasure trove of fossilised wood, stone and vegetation includes samples that Darwin collected on the HMS Beagle journey, during which he came up with his theory of evolution. Lost for 165 years, the cabinet belonged to Darwin's good friend Joseph Hooker and also contained specimens from Darwin's mentor at Cambridge University, the Rev John Henslow.Dr Howard Falcon-Lang, [...]

The Bite Stuff 

I'm not sure how I missed it for so long, and I'm sure many of our members have long known about its existence, but I just discovered Jaime Headden's blog The Bite Stuff.If you haven't seen Jaime's site go check it out, there is a treasure trove of palaeo-reconstruction articles to be seen!(I do note I'm going off SVPOW claiming this blog is by Jaime Headden, as I can not find the blog's author's name anywhere obvious on the

Feathers in Amber 

Secrets from the age of the dinosaurs are usually revealed by fossilized bones, but a University of Alberta research team has turned up a treasure trove of late Cretaceous feathers, which have been discovered trapped in tree

How Soil Responds to Strong Earthquakes 

“Japan’s March 11 Tohoku Earthquake is among the strongest ever recorded, and because it struck one of the world’s most heavily instrumented seismic zones, this natural disaster is providing scientists with a treasure trove of data on rare magnitude 9 earthquakes.” Quoted from the Georgia Tech press

Ghetie’s Atlas of Avian Anatomy: a virtually unknown treasure…now available! 

This post will be of interest to the small subset of scientists that cherish ol’ skool analog anatomical work…folks like me. A few years ago, we “discovered” Ghetie’s Anatomical Atlas of Domestic Birds. Published in 1976 in Bucharest, Romania, this treasure trove of bird structure has flown under the radar for most avian anatomists. It’s

Treasure trove of traces 

Here’s an amazing sight that caught me unawares in Capadoccia — some paving stones outside a small “museum” (preserved Byzantine hoodoo church) that were chock full of some AMAZING trace fossils. Sense of scale is provided by a Turkish 1-lira coin, about the same size as a U.S. quarter. Check out the variety, size, and preservation quality of these gorgeous things: These are “negatives” — molds of depressions that were

GLACIAL FJORD: SEA TO SKY 

A short 90-minute drive north of the city of Vancouver, the nation's gateway to the Pacific, is a recreational Shangri-La that attracts four season adventurers from around the globe to ski, board, hike, mountain bike, kayak and climb the local peaks. This treasure trove wilderness playground stretches along the breathtaking Sea-to-Sky Highway affording breathtaking views of the Pacific as it follows Highway 99 north out of the sparkling gem of Vancouver from Lions Bay, through Squamish and [...]

The Other California: Sharktooth Hill and a Fossil Collection in Need of a Good Home 

Besides the familiar La Brea Tar Pits (translation: "The Tar" Tar Pits), California is not widely known as a treasure trove of fossil discoveries. A little of bit of digging (pun intending) reveals the state as a rich resource of the history of life through time. Death Valley and other parts of the Basin and Range province have been a source of Proterozoic and Paleozoic fossils which are

USGS mineral exploration files scanned, online 

Hundred of scanned USGS files ("dockets") on mineral exploration projects in Arizona are now online for free download. They are part of a collection of 5,000 such files from all over the country, including a few hundred from Arizona. [right, number of dockets per county in Arizona] This looks to be a real treasure trove of materials to sort through.The USGS announcement summarizes the

Pele de estegossauro do Jurássico 

Saiu um interessante artigo sobre preservação de pele num estegossauro Hesperasaurus mjosi dos Estados Unidos, assinado por Nicolai Christiansen e Emanuel Tschopp.O primeiro foi preparador de fósseis no Museu da Lourinhã e mais tarde foi meu orientando de mestrado pela Universidade Marie et Pierre et Marie Currie (Paris VI). O segundo é actual estudante de doutoramento sob minha orientação na Universidade Nova de Lisboa.PDFAbstractDinosaur skin impressions are rare in the Upper Jurassic [...]

Sea-Floor Sunday #66: Mississippi submarine fan 

The website for the Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping – Joint Hydrologic Center (CCOM-JHC), a University of New Hampshire and NOAA research center, is a treasure trove of information and images of modern seafloor mapping technology. I came across this fantastic perspective image of the Florida Escarpment and deep basin floor of the Gulf

Papers On Indian Quaternary: Paleoclimate, Geoarchaeology And Such.. 

I came across this treasure trove of articles on the Indian Quaternary. They are from the research group based at Deccan College, a well known centre for Quaternary research in Pune, western India. The page has been created by Sheila Mishra, faculty at Deccan College. The papers represent a range of topics from paleoclimate, Paleolithic tool and material record of early humans,