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Friday Fossil Feature – ammonite or am I right?
By Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! Cleoniceras sp., from the lower Cretaceous of Madagascar. The ‘ceras‘ in the name is greek for ‘horns.’ Photo by S. Boessenecker Ammonites are...
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Friday Fossil Feature – Holy Bullae, Batman!
By Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! Recently, CCNHM received a large donation of fossils from the famous PCS mine in Aurora, NC – known to paleontologists as Lee Creek. This is a...
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How we spent our Spring Break
By Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Spring break: a time for fun, relaxation, road trips, and partying… for students at least. For visiting researchers Dr. Morgan Churchill and Dr. Brian Beatty, it was...
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Friday Fossil Feature – Kogia let us tell you about earbones again?
By Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) and Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) For Fossil Friday this week here’s a couple of pygmy sperm whale earbones from the recently acquired Rita McDaniel collection...
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Friday Fossil Feature – An investi-Gator of the Oligocene of South Carolina
by Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! Dentary of Gavialosuchus americanus. Photo by S. Boessenecker. This week we take a look at Gavialosuchus americanus. Gavialosuchus americanus...
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Friday Fossil Feature – Thinking of a Good Walrus Pun is No Easy Tusk…
by Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) and Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) Happy Fossil Friday! Did you know that walruses used to live in the Southeastern US? From about 4 million years ago to as...
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Friday Fossil Feature – The head bone’s connected to the… neck bone…
By Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! Fossils don’t prepare themselves, and rarely come out of the ground looking the way you seem them on display in a museum. Here at the CCNHM, we...
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Friday Fossil Feature – whale, whale, whale, it seems all is not lost after all!
By Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) and Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) Happy Fossil Friday! Today we’re looking at Agorophius pygmaeus, one of the first named odontocetes from North America....
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Friday Fossil Feature – An Over-Whale-Ming Donation!
By Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! Mark with his gigantic Basilosaurus vert – kindly donated to the CCNHM! Photo by R. Boessenecker. Today we’re writing to thank local fossil...
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Friday Fossil Feature – A Closer Look at the Echo Hunter
By Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) and Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! Echovenator sandersi, the Echo Hunter. Image Source. We all know that odontocetes (toothed whales and...
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Friday Fossil Feature – 50 Shades of Gray (whale, that is)
by Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) and Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! We’re back after a long hiatus, to talk about our most recent donation – A new gray whale from the Lee...
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Friday Fossil Feature – Fintastic surfprises from Lee Cone’s Whale
by Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) & Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! The more we unpacked, the more excited we got as we learned just how much was donated. Photo by S....
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Friday Fossil Feature – It would be Folly to pass this site up
By Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) and Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Photo by R. Boessenecker Folly Beach is a popular destination near us here in Charleston, and thousands of swimmers, sun...
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Friday Fossil Feature – 2017 Aurora Fossil Fest!
By Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) and Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) Happy Fossil Friday! Over Memorial Day weekend, museum paleontologists Bobby and Sarah Boessenecker traveled to the town of...
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Friday Fossil Feature – SeAVP and the Gray Fossil Site
by Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) and Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) Happy Fossil Friday! Huge attendance for this year’s SeAVP! Last week, museum staff and volunteers traveled to Gray,...
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Friday Fossil Feature – Sinking Your Teeth into Coronodon
By Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) Happy Fossil Friday! Life restoration of Coronodon havensteini. Illustration by Alberto Collareta. Last week saw the publication of a new paper naming our...
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Friday Fossil Feature – 4 Specimens are Dolphinately Better Than 1
By Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) and Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! Earlier this week a new paper from CCNHM paleontologist Robert Boessenecker was published in the open...
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Friday Fossil Feature – What Makes a Fossil Hunter Happy? Finding His Porpoise!
By Robert Boessenecker (@CoastalPaleo) and Sarah Boessenecker (tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! Porpoises belong to the modern family Phocoenidae, and are one of the less diverse ‘families’ of modern...
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A Whale of a Tale
By Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! Manaia in all her glory! After a long and fascinating journey, our cast of Dorudon atrox, affectionately named ‘Manaia’ has finally reached her...
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Friday Fossil Feature – Museum Collections Improvements!
By Sarah Boessenecker (@tetrameryx) Happy Fossil Friday! Collections manager Sarah was ecstatic about this (and getting people to do the heavy lifting for her…) Here’s a different type of Friday Fossil...
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