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How Many Dinosaurs Remain Undiscovered? Paleontologists say more non-avian dinos are waiting to be uncovered than have previously been found By Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, July 21, 2023 Yours, Paul H.

Many Newly Discovered Species Are Already Gone Scientists are uncovering previously unknown species preserved in museum and botanical garden collections, only to find that they no longer exist in the wild. Katarina Zimmer, Wired, June 10, 2023 Undark version of above article. The paywalled paper is: Solórzano-Kraemer, M.M., Kunz, R., Hammel, J.U., Peñalver, E., Delclòs, X. and Engel, M.S., 2022. Stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Holocene copal and Defaunation resin from Eastern Africa indicate Recent biodiversity change. The Holocene, 32(5), pp.414-432. PDF of preprint of Solórzano-Kraemer et al. (2022) Yours, Paul H.

I once heard a paleontologist say that hominid fossils in caves were mostly adolescent males because adolescent males were more likely to get lost and die in caves. But this study extends to other mammals too. https://m.phys.org/news/2019-09-male-female-mammalian-fossils-museum.html

Students Catalog Wesleyan’s Lost Fossil Collections by Olivia Drake, Wesleyan University, July 6, 2017 http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2017/07/06/students-catalogue-wesleyans-lost-fossil-collections/ Yours, Paul H.

When I found a Dinosaur print on a beach last year it was suggested to me in passing comment by a curator of a Museum. That if the Museum thought it was deemed worthy and the find could be commissioned it could possibly go on display. Is it the Trustees who have the last say in these matters obviously it’s down to ready available funds I’m guessing. As anyone funded such a project themselves in order to get such finds of importance into a Museum. Regards, Darren.

I would like to share with you great people an exciting project I am starting. Many of you know that I work for the Idaho Museum of Natural History, but I also work for the Idaho Virtualization Lab. This lab was founded on the principle of democratizing science, this in short means making science easily available to everyone! Here at the lab we just received a very large grant that will allow us to start what will become the Virtual Museum of Idaho, the goal of this endeavor is to scan, digitize, and 3D model all collections housed at IMNH and make them available online for free for everyone to enjoy. And naturally we are starting with the paleontology collections, because honestly that is the best collection in the museum anyway! So for the next 5 years we will be working hard to make what will become the first fully digitized museum and opening the collections to anyone who wants to see them! One of the largest benefits of this collection is that researchers from around the globe will be able to do any type of traditional measurements from anywhere with an internet collection. The models that result from our scanning process are accurate to .0001 mm of the actual specimen, and measuring tools are native to the software used to compile the collections. In the meantime while we are working on the collections we will be doing a weekly "from the vault" posting on our Facebook page, we started today with some scans of a few Green River fish slabs. If you would like to "subscribe" to these posts, please go and like our page, and feel free to visit our new website, still under construction so the collection areas are currently vacant. I am excited to be a part of this new project and hope that you all will enjoy it as well! http://www.facebook.com/IdahoVirtualizationLaboratory http://ivl.imnh.isu.edu/ P.S.: We will also be working on a modern comparative collection for most North American mammals, and several cetaceans!