A big thank you to all the undergraduate and graduate students who worked in the collections this past school year from all of us at UCMP!!! 🦕🦖🦕🦖

New research out today by UCMP curator Z. Jack Tseng about Smilodon baby teeth! 👶🦷🐈
news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/30/the…

Rain or Shine, the UCMP is out here on #calday2024 welcoming prospective students and their families!
Find us outside on the North Lawn of VLSB! Or in the 1st Floor Atrium to “Meet the T. rex.” Learn about paleontology research and graduate and undergraduate student experience!

🐞Calling all biology and environmental science instructors in San Francisco Bay Area high schools or community colleges! Attend a professional development workshop this summer at the UC Berkeley Department of Integrative Biology! More info below! docs.google.com/forms/d/1AV5hT…

Grad student Tanner Frank and undergrad Jamie Hernandez are using the Keyence VHX7000 to identify and digitize fossil arthropod and plant matter found in an ancient lakebed. Pictured: segment of arthropod setae and tail. Support us during #calbiggive ! ucmp.berkeley.edu/2024/03/suppor…

More stories from our undergrads! Support our students during #calbiggive ! Big Give starts at 9pm tonight! Read our blog to learn more about student activities and how to give! ucmp.berkeley.edu/2024/03/suppor…

Help the UCMP provide undergraduates with experiences in research, museum science, education and outreach during #calbiggive starting at 9pm Wednesday March 13, 2024! ucmp.berkeley.edu/2024/03/suppor…

👀Cool opportunity for teachers and instructors!

❤️Happy Valentine's Day! ❤️ These Heart Cockles (Corculum cardissa) are part of our modern invertebrate collection.

🐉🐉🐉Happy Lunar New Year! It's the year of the dragon (or *cough* dinosaur 🦖)!!! 🐉🐉🐉 #FossilFriday

🐸‼️New paper exploring the future of the fossil record from @UCMPberkeley and UC Berkeley IB graduate students Kat Magoulick Kat Magoulick and Ryan Yohler Ryan Yohler and Isaac Krone! Check it out! #fossils #paleontology #tetrapods #amphibians

🌊✨Fossil forests of kelp were the foundations of ancient marine ecosystems! Check out this new paper from UC Museum of Paleo curator and IB professor Cindy Looy, and former grad student Rosemary Romero to learn more! #paleontology #paleobotany

Very cool new paper out by UCMP PhD student Jaemin Lee! 29 million year old grasshopper eggs! 🐛🪲🐞

✨Lost Women of Science
discusses the fascinating life of Annie Alexander, who established the
UC Museum of Paleo in 1921.
Listen and learn about her contributions to paleontology in the early 1900s (with links to historical articles on the UCMP site!)
lostwomenofscience.org/episodes/adven…

Let’s celebrate the 2023 Paleo Society Awards!🏆

We present: The Pojeta Award to Lisa White of the Museum of Paleontology at UC Berkeley.✨

2023 Pojeta Award Citation Video: youtu.be/Lmx5wHfHsfM?si…

#paleontology #paleontologist #paleontologia #fossil #award #GSAConnects2023

#FossilFriday Have a safe and happy holiday season from all of us here at UCMP! 🎅🎄🦖🎄🎅