Paleontology

Volunteers uncovers 58th Mammoth at the Mammoth Site (Rapid City Journal)

26 Jul 2008

HOT SPRINGS -- Joanne Bugel is happy to be the Earthwatch volunteer who uncovered the 115th tusk at the Mammoth Site and moved the popular Hot Springs tourist site’s mammoth tally to 58.

Tiny Fossils Reveal Warm Antarctic Past (National Geographic)

25 Jul 2008

Hundreds of fossils of crustacean-like animals found recently in Antarctica suggest that 14 million years ago, the warmer continent was booming with life, a new study says.

School of Mines geology team to place seismometers (Rapid City Journal)

25 Jul 2008

Michael Terry, assistant professor of geological engineering at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, is leading a team of four students, Kathleen Schwabe (geology/paleontology, Merrimack, N.H.), Melissa Jetsen (geology, Rapid City), Daniel Mergenthal (geology, Rapid City) and Sarah DeHoogh (geology, Marengo, Iowa) to locate 43 sites for seismometers in South Dakota as part of the ...