Photo: Thaís Pansani posing with a giant ground sloth skeleton (Eremotherium laurillardi) at the Fossil Hall, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 2023.
Throughout the Cenozoic, many species, especially herbivorous mammals, developed gigantic sizes worldwide (called megafauna). In this program, we will review the evolution of the megafauna of the Americas, characterizing their diverse groups, revisiting their migration events during the Great American Biotic Interchange during the Pliocene, and discussing their ecological roles and paleoenvironmental settings, focusing on […]
Located in Montross, VA (on the south side of the Potomac River, adjacent to Westmoreland State Park), Stratford Cliffs are part of the Calvert Formation, a rare geological phenomenon along the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River. Among the most important fossil research sites in the Mid-Atlantic region, they were formed when land replaced an ancient […]
