This post has more to do with the coastal part of the title and less to do with the paleo part - I'll be doing more of these, since I figure there's probably some interest from readers regarding live, rather than dead, marine critters.   I found Opalescent nudibranchs like this one on my own for the first time. I've always enjoyed tidepooling since...

Welcome to Part 2 of my series on Xenorophus. To read Part 1, click here. Part 3 is on its way!  We've been in the middle of buying a new house - which is very exciting! And, also, exhausting. We're preparing for our move in 2.5 months to sunny San Diego - so things are a bit hectic, and I haven't had as much time to devote to blogging. I had intended...

Two weeks ago Sarah and I visited San Diego to do some house hunting - we're planning on doing our coast-to-coast move in mid-May, and already have a talk scheduled at the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, which is conveniently our half-way point; we can take a breather, hang out with our friend Aaron Pan (the MTT director) and then finish...

 A couple of years ago on National Fossil Day I was invited to give an online talk for the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History on fossil walruses from the Purisima Formation in Santa Cruz, and a bit more on the marine mammal fauna and what the fossils from the Santa Cruz cliffs tell us about their modern relatives. Click here for the museum page for...

I had very much intended to be writing a part 2 of my Xenorophus blog series right now but the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology jumped the gun and published our walrus paper without letting us know a publication date - I assumed it would be in March sometime [heads up to anyone else 'attempting' to put together a press release for an upcoming paper...

In November I published a rather massive monograph on the fossil dolphin Xenorophus - it's my longest publication to date (166 pages!), and my third published monograph - and one of two published in 2023* (check out my blog summary of my other 2023 monograph on Coronodon here, here, and here). This series of posts will be in four parts: 1) an introduction...