The remains of a 70-million-year-old carnivorous lobster have been found in Alabama, and the fossil is so well preserved it resembles well-cooked bacon.
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Join us this summer for interactive day camps trips, and programs hosted by the museum. Whether you are interested in fossils, insects, nature, or art there is something for everyone!
Bama Bug Fest is returning to an in-person event this year on April 9, 2022 at a NEW location: the Alabama Museum of Natural History!
Specimens in the paleontology collections of The University of Alabama Museums in Mary Harmon Bryant Hall get used for a variety of purposes such as scientific research, exhibits, teaching, and for outreach events.
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Dr. Harry L. “Bing” Blewitt, a retired chemistry professor at The University of Alabama, has been a volunteer in the paleontology collections at The University of Alabama Museums since 1999.
Come experience the Museum in a whole new way! Stomp around with dinosaurs, unearth rocks and minerals, and discover a host of other natural wonders. For K-2nd grade explorers. $5 per child. Registration is required. Admission $5 for each child that participates and is K-5. Adults are not charged but we do encourage them to participate. Admission is the same for any child under Kindergarten. Registration To register, please fill out our online form. Location The museum is located in Smith Hall […]
From February 7-11, 2022, the Alabama Museum of Natural History is hosting a #ColorOurCollections event giving visitors a chance to color pages out of The University of Alabama Museums Coloring Book, featuring objects in our collections! We’ll provide the pages and the crayons, markers, and colored pencils, if you’ll provide the talent.
Museum Selfie Day is on January 19, 2022! Started by London blogger Mar Dixon, the Museum Selfie Day trend has gone worldwide and spawned a plethora of creative posts on social media ever since.
Over the last two months, two new books on parasitism in the fossil record were published as part of the Topics in Geobiology series. The last one appeared online on 1 January 2022.
Over the last decade, parasites in the marine fossil record have been increasingly studied. The scientific community has shown that part of the lack of knowledge about marine parasites in deep time is simply due to a lack of research.