Tag: family
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PBS Eons: Is This the Oldest Dad in the Fossil Record?
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about fossil evidence of early mammals and how they raised their young, Fossil evidence suggests Diictodon used burrows to breed, and that a parent stayed behind to feed and protect their young. And the parent that stayed behind? It might’ve been the male.
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If I Could Turn Back Time: Over a Decade With ESCONI by Mary Fairchild
“The Mazon Creek flora is renowned for being almost completely collected by amateurs. Since 1858, in an area covering approximately 100 square miles, untold numbers of collectors have gathered fossils in quantities unprecedented in North America.” Jack Wittry In the mid-1990s when our family first became interested in collecting fossils, one of our…
