What do these images have in common? They all appear on posters that lab students will be presenting today at the geosociety meeting in Spokane! If you're at GSA, swing by between 4 and 5:30 to hear about their research! Art: Charles R. Knight Ringtail photo: Am Soc Mammalogists

We concluded the Spokane geosociety meeting today with a lovely paleontology trip to the Idaho Panhandle. Thanks so much to EWU_Geology for taking the lead on this fantastic conference and the UIdaho Geography & Geological Sciences folks who put today's trip together!

A couple of years of planning culminated in a great Northwest Scientific Association meeting this week on the the Gonzaga University campus. It's been keeping me too busy to post updates, but please enjoy these photos from the conference and our field trip to Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge.

It's always fun to find yourself in a fossil collection on #FossilFriday, especially when you stumble across a specimen as spectacular as the holotype of Sciurus olsoni, a Miocene squirrel from Nevada, in the UM Paleontology collections!

Day 2 of North American Paleontological Convention 2024 is Day 1 of Gonzaga University paleontology presentations! Come see my students' poster on fossils from the Strait of Juan de Fuca at Booth 11 and talk to them about their research from 5:30-6:15!

Hey, North American Paleontological Convention 2024 attendees! If you're enjoying the fossil trading cards from Paleontological Research Institution as much us, come find my students and I and let's make a trade! I'm looking to unload duplicates of Bivalve and Tabulate Coral at the moment!

Portraits from the final day of North American Paleontological Convention 2024 featuring the presenters from the Paleobiology of Carnivorous Mammals session and the members of the Gonzaga University Morphology & Ecology Across Time Lab!

After a decade (?!?) away, it's so exciting to be back in the Field Museum collections looking at predatory mammals big and small.

When at the Field Museum, it's always nice to see a fellow Washingtonian. The museum's Columbian mammoth was found in the Palouse in 1876. If you're wondering how it wound up in Chicago, Jack Nisbett's 2001 The Inlander article tells its mammoth saga. inlander.com/news/the-palou…

I spent this week in Chicago, so I'm celebrating #FossilFriday with the Illinois State Fossil from the Field Museum. The "Tully monster" is common in the Mazon Creek lagerstätte, but what exactly is it? We still don't know, one of the many fascinating things about this animal!

This #FossilFriday finds me in 🇦🇷, so let's celebrate a paleontological celebrity. Megatherium, the elephant-sized sloth of the Pampas seen here in the Museo de La Plata & Museo Rivadavia, inspired Darwin and was the face of paleontology long before the word 'dinosaur' was coined.

As a paleontologist visiting 🇦🇷, naturally I had to go to Patagonia, but I wasn't expecting to see my first fossils in the airport! The only downside is that the MuseoEgidioFeruglio that made these exhibits is closed for renovation, and now I know what I'm missing!