New resource available! Check out, "Digging the West: A Journey Through Time in the National Parks", an online, interactive ArcGIS StoryMap that walks readers through geologic time in our National Parks. This was made possible via a Paleo in the Parks Fellowship and is available in English & Spanish
@paleosoc.bsky.social invites applications for its new Collections Grants program, which provides funding for members working in natural history collections to support paleontological/paleobiological curatorial and digitization projects, proposals due June 1st!
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View of classroom with many rectangular tables and many people seated around tables. All individuals are watching the front podium on the left as two students introduce seminar speaker Dr Lisa Whitw
Introductory slide for Dr Lisa White’s seminar. Title: Integrating paleontology collections, seagoing expeditions, and interactive web-based tools to enhance STEM instruction for undergraduate students
Enthralled with #DrLisaDWhite sharing her history and science at #SFSU @sfstatebio.bsky.social seminar. @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social Director of Education & Outreach #SF_ROCKS #geologist. Who knew the @tarpits.org #direwolves had been stored at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social #SatherTower??
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Cambrian explosion paper models by Judith White Marcellini at the Lawrence Hall of Science, May 2025.
Now scanning my class notes from Saturday's paleontology lecture series at @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social. The last one was about the Cambrian explosion, which reminded me of these amazing paper models by Judith White Marcellini I saw at the Lawrence Hall of Science.
@toysdream.bsky.social Can't wait to see them!
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During COVID, the early birds only had the worms! Did pandemic restrictions cause beak shape to evolve in a population of birds on a college campus? Read about it in Evo in the News! #STEMed #evolution #birding
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UCMP Short Course on March 7, 2026! We'll explore "Life's Six Great Ways of Being." UC Berkeley scientists will discuss how new methods in molecular genetics give us a new perspective on traditional classification systems. Register for this free lecture series at: ucmp.berkeley.edu/short-course...
Congratulations to UCMP Curator Dr. Juan Liu, who has been awarded the 2026 W.M. Cobb Early Career Investigator Award in Morphological Sciences from the American Association for Anatomy! 🐟🐠Well done, Juan!🐠🐠
🪨📜✂️ These lizards play an evolutionary game of rock-paper-scissors, vying to leave behind more offspring in the next generation. New research reveals the genetic rules they play by. Read more in the latest Evo in the News. #stemEd #evolution #rockpaperscissors tinyurl.com/lizardrockpa...
🌱UCMP welcomes Alexander Lowe as the new Sr. Museum Scientist of Paleobotany!🌱Alex received his PhD from the Univ of Washington and was a postdoc at the Smithsonian prior to arriving at UCMP. Alex's research focuses on reconstructing Cenozoic terrestrial vegetation and climate in the western US.
Collaborate with me! Myself and @peterroopnarine.bsky.social are looking for a postdoc with expertise in quantitative paleoecology to work on our new NSF grant addressing whether communities after the PTME functioned differently than those beforehand.
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Happy Holidays from Santa Claws! 🎄🎄🎉🦖 #fossilfriday #trex #santaclaws
Thought to be invasive, these island iguanas are actually locals and have likely lived on their island for hundreds of thousands of years. This Evo in the News explains how researchers used evolution to figure it out. #geneticdrift #STEMed #evolution
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Grad student Jaemin Lee has published on grasshopper ootheca (egg clutch) found in the Sheep Rock unit of the park. CT scanning was also utilized in analyzing this fossil. Read about the 29-million-year-old fossil grasshopper ootheca here: doi.org/10.5070/P540...
Grad student Sergio Garcia-Lara has scanned several oreodont dentaries collected from John Day formation in order to analyze the bending strength along different inter-dental mandibular spaces between hypsodont and non-hypsodont oreodonts.
Post-doc @narimanechatar.bsky.social is working with extinct sabertoothed cat-like carnivores from John Day, scanning a cast of Pogonodon platycopsis, housed in the UCMP. 3D scanning allows her to compare the shape and mechanical performances of its cranium and jaw. tinyurl.com/pogcranium
@tsengzj.bsky.social is working with Nick Famoso at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument using a 3D scan of a fossil hedgehog in a larger study of hedgehog evolution. This allowed them to digitally extract the fossil from the concretion without preparing the skull itself tinyurl.com/fossilhedgehog
We’d also like to highlight research conducted with fossils from this locality by international scholars who are utilizing new technology like 3D scanning which allows us to work with fossils in new ways and have a digital record that increases accessibility to these fossils.
Skull of a squirrel relative, skull of beaver, and a dramatic black and white photo of an oreodont. Check out more UCMP fossils on Calphotos tinyurl.com/UCMPJODA
See the diversity of flora and fauna in the UCMP collections from the John Day Basin for #nationalfossilday
Unidentified leaf in Clarno Fm, Coleoptera (beetle) fossil, lower jaw bone of alligator.
Also featured is a glass negative of John Day Basin and of a student at Turtle Cove in the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument from our 2022 Field Methods in Paleobiology course field trip.
Check out more UCMP fossils on Calphotos tinyurl.com/UCMPJODA and read more about UCMP history in the John Day Basin at ucmp.berkeley.edu/science/park... and National Fossil Day at www.nps.gov/articles/000... #nationalfossilday (3/3)
Fossil no. 20 in our paleobotany collection is leaf of a fern Pteris silvicola (2/3)
Happy National Fossil Day featuring fossils from the John Day Basin! UCMP holds more than 7,000 plant and vertebrate specimens collected there, including some of the first fossils cataloged at the UCMP! Fossil no. 13 in our vertebrate collection is a cervical vertebrae of an oreodont (1/3)
