Tag: Palaeontology
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Museum Lecture: “The Beast in the Cellar”
At the height of the 2013 “Museums at Night” festival, I gave a talk to members of the public and friends of the Lyme Regis Museum, here I give a little bit of background and link you to that talk, I hope you all enjoy it!
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Some Museum-ey Stuff and The PodQuest
Another long rambling post where I talk about museum stuff, and introduce you to one of this year’s side projects… The PodQuest!
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Home Again – Dispatches from Montana 3 (The Photo Edition)
Some photographs from my recent trip to the Museum of the Rockies’ Field Camp in Rudyard, Montana.
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Hadrosaur! – Dispatches from Montana 2.
We’ve reached the bone bed! It took over two and a half weeks of digging (one and a half on my part) but we’re finally there. Before reaching the bone bed however I managed to find a few other odds and ends within the overburden, including the following: Another Hadrosaur tooth, One small Crocodile tooth,…
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On cataloguing my first Museum collection…
A rather long post describing what I’ve been up to at Craven Museum and Art Gallery over the last month, and talking about one or two lessons I’ve learnt…
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A rare summer find in Lyme Regis
A post following the events surrounding the recent discovery of an (as yet unidentified) Ichthyosaur fossil found in the landslip to the east of Lyme Regis in August 2011.
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Scelidosaurus harrisonii: A Reprise
Answering Simon’s question about whether the dinosaur fossil described in “Scelidosaurus harrisonii: a tale of mass death and discovery” could be re-worked, I talk a little about re-working and outline how we know this dinosaur isn’t an example of it.
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Scelidosaurus harrisonii: a tale of mass death and discovery
Looking at the not-so-famous Dorset dinosaur, Scelidosaurus harrisonii. I talk a little about what the fossils have already told us, and what they are still shedding light on… plus my minute part in the whole story.
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An Essay On: The Fossil Record
An essay on the subject of the Fossil Record and to counter the “no transitional forms” argument from a different angle from the usual.
Benjamin David Brooks 