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The Black Belt Museum, located in Livingston Alabama, is now open. This museum is dedicated to the natural history and culture of the black belt, the swath across central Alabama characterized by chalk rock and thin black soils. The black belt is also home to some of the most important vertebrate fossils from the eastern United States, including whales, mosasaurs, and dinosaurs. These are beautifully displayed at the museum. And where else can you see an aluminum cast of a fire-ant nest?

There is no charge to visit the museum.


http://blackbeltmuseum.com/

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Another Living Fossil


It was all over the news:
13-foot mosasaur,
giant sea-going lizard,
fishbelly white,
not seen since the
comet killed most of the dinos,
washed up on the coast
of Mozambique,
coelacanth parts in its gut,
sucker scars all over;
like so many relics,
it'd retreated to the deep.

We should've known, really:
giant squids gotta eat!

Back, By Popular Demand--Les Fossiles!

Sign up soon, if you can, to stay off the waiting list!

Seriously, the second edition of "Lost worlds in Alabama rocks" is fantastic, and it costs three times what the workshop does. You get the book for free, a free lunch, other free stuff, and you get to collect fossils. What are you waiting for?