A somewhat local paleontology museum (as well as a personal favorite of mine) is the La Brea tar pits, once known as Rancho La Brea. These natural asphalt seeps have been capturing plants, animals and contemporary objects for tens of thousands of years. The museum itself is full of local fossil material, to an extent […]
One of the first paleo-related places my family visited on our September trip to England was the Oxford Museum. This space was a treasure trove of information about world culture, history, and the study of life, both extinct and extant. We didn’t have much time in the museum, but as you can see it was
In early 2023 I went to Billings Montana to take a course on fossil preparation with the Judith River Dinosaur Institute, under Nate Murphy. I spent most of my time cleaning and reassembling the vertebra of a Camarasaur, a Jurassic sauropod native to North America.
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This first blog post is about WordPress itself, since this is a complicated interface to learn. I have Astra Pro Theme installed on the backend, and I am learning about the ‘Gutenberg‘ block editor which is built into WordPress version 5. I will probably adjust the page structure and font appearance as I learn this
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