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PBS Eons: The Chaotic Race to Name T. rex
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about the controversial history of the name Tyrannosaurus rex.
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“Dinosaurs” is now live on Netflix
“Dinosaurs” the Netflix series that tells their story is now live on Netflix Welcome to The Dinosaurs – an epic journey into a lost world. From executive producer Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment, and the award‑winning team behind Our Planet, this groundbreaking documentary series follows the rise and fall of the dinosaurs across hundreds of millions…
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Throwback Thursday #293: Field Museum – Charles Knight
This is Throwback Thursday #293. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! email:esconi.info@gmail.com. The Field Museum has an interesting Photo Archive page about Charles Knight. Knight was an American wildlife and…
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ESCONI Board Members for 2025
PRESIDENT: Chris Berg 1ST. VICE PRESIDENT: Katherine Howard 2ND. VICE PRESIDENT: Keith Robitschek RECORDING SECRETARY: Valerie Anderson TREASURER: Andrew Jansen PUBLICITY: Elizabeth Magnus-Gentry LIBRARIAN: Andrew Jansen CURATOR: Chris Cozart HISTORIAN: Richard Holm Assistant Field Trip Chairman: Connor Puritz Assistant Field Trip Chairman: Jeremy Zimmerman EDITOR: Don Cronauer CIRCULATION: Rose Jansen PAST PRESIDENT: Phil Anderson MEMBERSHIP: Rose Jansen SHOW…
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The Brain Scoop: Ghost Lineages!
There’s a new episode of The Field Museum’s “The Brain Scoop” Youtube channel. This one is about ghost lineages, species that we know had to exist, but have no fossil evidence. There is a great explanation of the concept. Dr. Brandon Peecook thought he had made a major paleontological discovery that was going to…
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The Brain Scoop: The Egg Collection!
The latest episode on the Field Museum’s “The Brain Scoop” channel is “The Egg Collection!”. There’s an Elephant Bird egg, Kiwis, Ostriches, and much, much more! Eggs! There are around 10,800 different species of birds, all which lay eggs that vary in size, color, shape, and parental care required. Dr. John Bates pulled some…
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The Brain Scoop: What Fossils Reveal about Today’s Climate Change
Another episode of the Field Museum’s “The Brain Scoop” is up over YouTube. It is a discussion of climate change with a preview of the new Deep Time Hall at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. The new hall is scheduled to open on June 8th, 2019. Dr. Scott Wing…
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COD STEMinar Series: Ted Daeschler – Great Steps in the History of Life: The Origin of Limbed Vertebrates
A video of the April ESCONI General Meeting has been posted to youtube. Remember, this was part of the COD STEMinar Series. The talk was by Ted Daeschler and titled “Great Steps in the History of Life: The Origin of Limbed Vertebrates”. Very interesting! If you missed it, check it out!
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Brain Scoop: Paleoart: Painting the Land Before Time
The current episode of the Brain Scoop from the Field Museum is about artists that helped visualize natural history. Join Emily for another great and interesting episode! The Field Museum has a long history of hiring artists to help teach people about the dinosaurs and other early life on earth. Maybe you’ve heard of…
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Brain Scoop: The ‘Sistine Chapel of Taxidermy’ – Conserving Akeley’s Elephants
The Brain Scoop has an episode about the 100+ year old elephants at the Field Museum in Stanley Field Hall. They were created by Carl Akeley and his wife Delia way back in the early 1900s. A previous episodes from 2013 are here and here.
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Time: See How the Solar Eclipse Will Look From Anywhere in the U.S.
Time has a story that does a simulation of the upcoming Solar Eclipse on August 21st. Just enter your zip code and enjoy!
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(broken links) #DayOfFacts
On Twitter, Friday February 17th, 2017 was a #DayOfFacts. Check out the video from the Field Museum. There’s more at #DayOfFacts. Enjoy!
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(broken link) Webinar: Paleontological Resources Preservation Act of 2009 (PRPA)
Dr. Scott Foss and iDigBio are hosting a special webinar on the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act (PRPA) – join them Thursday, January 19, 2017 – 3:00pm to 4:00pm EST! To add the event to your calendar click here. The Department of the Interior proposed regulation under PRPA was published in the Federal Register on December…
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(paywall) Meet the New Titanosaur. You Can Call It Wade.
The NY Times has a story about a new titanosaur. It’s named, Savannasaurus elliottorum, after the family that found it on their farm in Queensland, Australia back in 2005. Titanosaurs are sauropods, which were the long necked plant-eating dinosaurs. Other well known examples include Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, and Brontosaurus. Savannasaurus lived about 95 million years ago. …
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Mosasaurs!
FossilGuy has a page on Mosasaurs that contains just about anything you could think of asking… and more. There’s pictures, video, and facts galore. Enjoy!
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Palaeocast Episode 57: Wealden Fossils
Front cover of English Wealden Fossils, a field guide to the fossils of this group, containing everything needed to know about the fossils of the Wealden including vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants. Darren Naish was involved with the chapter on crocodilians, and he also wrote the theropod chapter. Anyone interested in learning more about the fossils…
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Support ESCONI with AmazonSmile
Support ESCONI Did you know you can support ESCONI by shopping at Amazon? Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to ESCONI whenever you shop on AmazonSmile. AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you already know. Same products, same prices, same service. Support ESCONI by naming us as your charitable organization…
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Support ESCONI with AmazonSmile!
Support ESCONI Did you know you can support ESCONI by shopping at Amazon? Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to ESCONI whenever you shop on AmazonSmile. AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you already know. Same products, same prices, same service. Support ESCONI by naming us as your charitable organization…
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Amid budget fight, Illinois State Museum prepares to close
Science Magazine has a story about the closure of the Illinois State Museum, which is due to the political battle over the budget in Springfield. The website is still up, but the facilities did close on October 1st. The closure will save the state 4.8 million of a 4 billion dollar budget hole. Last year,…
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Jamestown excavation unearths four bodies — and a mystery in a small box
The Washington Post has an interesting story of a recent archaeological find at Jamestown in Virginia. Capt. Gabriel Archer, who died in Jamestown around 1609, was buried with a small sealed silver box. The box contains seven bone fragments and a small lead vial. It was probably a holy relic and was highly treasured as…
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Paleontologists give “Jurassic World” science thumbs down
Have you gone to see “Jurassic World” yet? Quite a few people have, as its opening was one of the biggest ever. CBS News has good story that discusses the “science” of “Jurassic World” and the verdict is that it’s not very realistic. With “Jurassic World” hitting theaters Friday, paleontologists like James Kirkland are girding…
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(broken link) What If Jurassic Park Took Place In Other Geologic Eras?
College Humor has a funny clip that explores other geological eras as the basis of Jurassic Park. Enjoy!
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The Earth stands on the brink of its sixth mass extinction and the fault is ours
The Guardian has a story about the current mass extinction event in Earth’s history. The story summarizes a paper that appeared in the journal Science Advances. The oft-repeated claim that Earth’s biota is entering a sixth “mass extinction” depends on clearly demonstrating that current extinction rates are far above the “background” rates prevailing between the…
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(broken link) Chicken Grows Face of a Dinosaur
The BBC’s Earth Blog has a story that describes a chicken embryo that developed a dinosaur-like snout instead of a beak. The research was performed by a team of scientists that included Bhart-Anjan Bhullar of Yale University and Arhat Abzhanov of Harvard University. The original paper appeared in the journal Evolution. To understand how one…
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The Godley Mining Museum Needs Your Help
On Sunday May 31st, 10 am., volunteers will be meeting at the Godley Mining Museum in Godley, IL to help identify Mazon Creek specimens and help to clean up and improve the inside of the museum. This is a small one room museum located on Illinois Route 66. If you want to help the…
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Past Time – A Paleontology Podcast
Recently, I found another paleontology podcast. It’s called Past Time. It’s hosted by a couple graduate students in the Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York. It’s very good. Episodes tend to be of the news flash format, but there are longer ones with interviews. The stories are well…
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Project Hyena: The Brain Scoop Needs Your Help!
From the Field Museum and their excellent YouTube channel The Brain Scoop: We’ve got some awesome taxidermy hyenas from 1899 that we want to restore and put into a brand-new diorama in the Hall of Asian Mammals. But we need your help! We’ve teamed up with our in-house YouTube channel, The Brain Scoop, to launch…
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Fact or Fiction?: Dark Matter Killed the Dinosaurs
Scientific American has an interesting story that discusses mass extinctions and their causes. Back in the 1980s, University of Chicago paleontologists David Raup and Jack Sepkoski found evidence for a 26 million year periodicity in the largest mass extinctions in earth’s history. Since then, other studies have found a similar period of around 30 million years for extinction events. There…
