The APS was thrilled to host two elementary schools in October and November from North Alabama to learn about the rich fossil record in...

The APS made a trip out to our backyard in August 2022 to hunt trackways, plants and marine fossils from a world class site. This time...

On June 25, the APS made a field trip to a borrow pit in Northeast Mississippi to look for Cretaceous marine fossils. The site has been a...

On June 1, 2022 a remarkable dinosaur egg with intact embryo was unveiled on the campus of Auburn University over 50 years after being...

On May 15, the APS headed back to a familiar location near Montgomery. The group of about 15 was blessed with a beautiful, though a very...

The APS made an early morning trek to Jackson, MS on Saturday 5 March for the 2022 Fossil Roadshow hosted at the Mississippi Museum of...

The APS made a return visit to the Pennsylvanian Age rocks of Walker County, Alabama on a gorgeous February day. We had a good group of...

The APS was thrilled to be back out interacting with the public at this years National Fossil Day event at the Alabama Museum of Natural...

The APS took a return trip to an active coal mine in Jefferson County for their 10 October field trip. We were joined by a group from...

The APS headed to the Montgomery area for a late September field trip. The day was warm and dry with bright sun and deep blue skies, and...

On 10 July, the APS made a return visit to the Pennsylvanian Age rocks of Walker County, Alabama. We had a very small group of intrepid...

I, personally, was very excited that the Alabama Paleontological Society (APS) hit the field again on 26 June in what has been a very...

For the second straight weekend the APS had a field trip; this was supposed to be the third straight Saturday in May but the first trip...

After having several field trips planned for April and the first weekend in May cancelled due to rain, we finally caught a much needed...

March 6, 2021, Ohhhhh what a day! Saturday was a beautiful blue, cloudless day in Alabama for a fossil hunt on a Carboniferous Period...

There was quite a bit of excitement building since January to get back out to the strip mine site in Walker County as some large slabs...

The Alabama Paleontological Society (APS) spent a beautiful sunny cool (high in the mid 50s) January day looking for fossils in Walker...

The second of January 2021 started off with a bang and it was a chilly one. It was supposed to be a partly sunny to cloudy day in the...

December in north Alabama brings lots of rain, cooler temperatures, and also a lot less vegetation and bugs making it a great time to get...

In September, the Alabama Paleontological Society (APS) took a field trip to look for rocks and minerals but on October 17, 2020, it was...