Niobrara Formation | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:23:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Fossil tells a new tail https://boneblogger.com/fossil-tells-a-new-tail/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fossil-tells-a-new-tail Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:12:59 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=1942 Mosasaurs lived in the world’s oceans during the Late Cretaceous, the last Period from the Age of Dinosaurs (see the geologic time scale). They are close relatives of modern snakes and lizards, and during the Cretaceous they become fully aquatic sea monsters, growing to tremendous sizes, and were the top predators of their environments. Their […]

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]]> My National Geographic moment https://boneblogger.com/my-national-geographic-moment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-national-geographic-moment Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:47:27 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=1449 “A photographer from National Geographic wants to talk to you.” These words, or words to those effect, met me as I came into the museum office one day back in 2001, and they definitely caught my attention. It was 2001 and I was Assistant Director of the Sternberg Museum of Natural History. We had just […]

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]]> Fossil ‘discovery’ rewrites history https://boneblogger.com/fossil-discovery-rewrites-history/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fossil-discovery-rewrites-history Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:36:16 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=121 Originally published in the Hays Daily News 21 February 2010 By MIKE CORN mcorn@dailynews.net For nearly 40 years, it’s been tucked away in a storage room at the University of Kansas, little more than a bag of bones that at the time it was collected struck even the most experienced as unusual. The late Marion […]

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]]> Formations https://boneblogger.com/formations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=formations Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:12:03 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=56 The crust of the Earth is composed of a complex mix of rock types formed in specific depositional environments. Most of your everyday experience occurs in erosional environments, places where the surface of the Earth is being eroded away by physical or chemical processes. Rocks underfoot are being broken up then transported as sediments to […]

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