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Dr. John Friel, museum director, searches for fossils in gravel he collected from the creek bed.| Alabama Museum of Natural History
Dr. John Friel, museum director, searches for fossils in gravel he collected from the creek bed.| Alabama Museum of Natural History
Cyclida are an enigmatic, extinct group of crustaceans. They lived in the oceans from the Carboniferous Period till the end of the Cretaceous Period (~360 – 66 million years ago). How they relate to other groups of crustaceans has been debated for more than a century. Cyclids are small (mostly < 2 cm) and thus hard to recognize. As a result, this group remains understudied in terms of diversity (55 species only) and ecology. Smaller individuals may have been parasites, but larger ones could...| Alabama Museum of Natural History
The ammonite Hoploscaphites nicolletii with a lateral injury on both sides (shell missing). From Tajika et al. (2025).| Alabama Museum of Natural History
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Blue Star Museums is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and Blue Star Families, in collaboration with the Department of Defense and museums across America, offering free admission to the nation’s active-duty military personnel and their families, including National Guard and Reserve.| National Endowment for the Arts
