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My National Geographic moment

Greg — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:47:27 +0000

“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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SuperCroc at Sternberg

Greg — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:25:37 +0000

The Sternberg Natural History Museum at Fort Hays State University is featuring a new exhibit, The Science of SuperCroc from now until August 5. The star of the show is the African crocodilian species Sarcosuchus whose remains have been found in the modern Sahara, in the Elrhaz Formation. This Early Cretaceous (~112 million years ago) […]

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Fossil ‘discovery’ rewrites history

Greg — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:36:16 +0000

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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