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This beautifully polished fossil looks like half of an antique bowling ball. Normally I hate polished fossils because the external details have been erased, but in this case the smooth surface reveals details about the organisms and their relationship. We … Continue reading →

I’m in the middle of writing my final draft of my Independent Study, and I’m getting to that stage where it’s so easy to procrastinate! For your enjoyment, I thought I’d share some humorous images I’ve come across. -Angela  

Let’s not talk about how many days are left but rather THE DAY. I thought before we begin our 30 day countdown to IS Monday, we should enlighten some of our less familiar Wooster readers about the day itself.  So … Continue reading →

By Samantha McNelly As a first year college student, I only had a general idea of what I wanted my major to be and what I wanted to do after college. I just knew that eventually, I wanted to work … Continue reading →

GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA — The 10th North American Paleontological Convention here is sponsored by the Florida Museum of Natural History. (The meeting is excellent, by the way, and very well organized. Congratulations to the paleontological team that put it together.) Since … Continue reading →

GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA–Steph Bosch (’14), Lizzie Reinthal (’14) and I flew out of icy Ohio this weekend to attend the 10th North American Paleontological Convention in warm, sunny northern Florida. The students jointly presented the beautiful poster above on their Independent … Continue reading →

Last week three Wooster geology students and I visited Ken Karns, an enthusiastic citizen scientist who has developed an extraordinary fossil collection in his home in Lancaster, Ohio. Ken is a man of prodigious energies and skills as he not … Continue reading →

So I was blanking all day about something to write about.  Like most other people on campus right now, I’m mentally exhausted from all the midterms and just when I was thinking, “how can I ever put something catchy together … Continue reading →

Now that I’ve been back on campus for just around a month, I think it’s time for me to get back into this blog. I’ve been putting it off for a while now, mostly because I don’t know what to … Continue reading →

Another bioerosion mystery from those fascinating Upper Ordovician rocks around Cincinnati. Above you see a flat, bifoliate trepostome bryozoan (probably Peronopora) with pock holes scattered across its surface. At first you may think, after reading so many blog posts here, … Continue reading →