Vertebrate Paleontology Blog

News and reviews of scientific research on fossil vertebrates.

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Off to collect fossils

Tomorrow I leave for several weeks work in my thesis research area. I will be living in a tent and collecting fossils and rock samples across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. I am attempting to locate the CIE event; a period of rapid global warming that dramatically reshaped the world and was perhaps one of the major factors for the rise of most the modern mammalian groups, including our own order -- Primates.