“Alabama Fossil Fest”, hosted by the Alabama Museum of Natural History (ALMNH) and UA Museums’ Department of Museum Research and Collections, is a free and perfect opportunity to explore paleontology! Visit Smith Hall on The University of Alabama campus on Saturday, September 20, 2025, from 1:00 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. for a tabling event, the Alabama Avocational Paleontologist Award presentation, exciting talks by Drs. Ron Buta and David Schwimmer, a new exhibit unveiling, and hands-on le...| Alabama Museum of Natural History
Reset and unwind with Pilates at the Alabama Museum of Natural History! Work out under the whale on September 9, 2025 from 5:45 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. This class is open for all abilities and ages 18+.| Alabama Museum of Natural History
Dr. John Friel holds the hadrosaur tooth he found in Greene County, Alabama. Photo: Dr. John Friel| Alabama Museum of Natural History
Welcome back, University of Alabama students! We totally dig having you on campus!| Alabama Museum of Natural History
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Several times a summer, three vans depart The University of Alabama, bound for Shark Tooth Creek. For years, the Alabama Museum of Natural History has hosted fossil expeditions to the sandy creek bed where shovels full of clay and gravel can yield prehistoric finds. The vans are packed to the doors with kids, parents, grandparents and a few amateur paleontologists who just love the hunt. The Alabama Black Belt represents an ancient coastline, so the fossil expedition site was once ocean s...| 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
Electric slide on over to the Alabama Museum of Natural History on May 27 from 5:45 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. for our next dance cardio class with University Recreation. Nobody puts Baby in a corner here! This totally tubular class will combine fun DAZE moves with bodacious hits straight from your Walkman. Don’t you wanna dance with somebody? Reserve your spot today, cause you totally don’t want to miss this. As if!| Alabama Museum of Natural History
RAWR! Join the Alabama Museum of Natural History and the students of ‘The Writer in the World: Collaborative Creative Forms’ on April 10, 2025 from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. for an opening reception of creative ‘eco-writing’ inspired by the museum’s vast collection of fossils and artifacts. The creative pieces will be dispersed amongst the museum’s specimens, and the display will feature a pop-up, child-friendly “sensory table” to create an interactive, educational, and though...| Alabama Museum of Natural History
From footnote to forefront: Jefferson Davis Jackson will be receiving his flowers from the Alabama Museum of Natural History. On April 18, 2025 from 5:30 p.m. until 7:00 p.m., we invite you to a free unveiling of our newest permanent exhibition honoring the life and contributions of “Mr. J.D.” He spent 65+ years of his life working for The University of Alabama formally as a janitor and cook; however, he performed the duties of a geologist, paleontologist, archaeologist, and exhibition [...]| Alabama Museum of Natural History