Geology Department
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| Fossil Find: Big Bird Roamed Northwest 50 Million Years Ago | Last year, a landslide east of Bellingham exposed a rock slab with an assortment of fossilized bird tracks. One of the footprints is really big. |
2010-07-15 | |
| Giant Bird Roamed Northwest 50 Million Years Ago | Last year, a landslide east of Bellingham exposed a rock slab with an assortment of fossilized bird tracks. One of the footprints is really big. |
2010-07-14 | |
| Fossil Proves Local Existence Of Giant Flightless Bird | Fifty million years ago, when what is now Washington state was covered with a verdant subtropical rainforest, a 380-pound flightless bird called Diatryma stalked the floodplains of the region’s meandering rivers. |
2010-07-14 | |
| Fossil footprint of giant extinct bird removed from Deming hillside, trucked to WWU | 2010-07-13 | ||
| WWU researchers retrieve fossil track of giant extinct bird | At 10:24 a.m. Monday, July 12, in the foothills northeast of Deming, the heavy-duty helicopter gently lowered a sandstone slab onto a flatbed truck on loan from Western Washington University. A safe distance away in the foothills drizzle, several members of WWU's geology department… |
2010-07-13 | |
| Fossil discovered by WWU geologists proves local existence of giant flightless bird 50M years ago | 2010-07-12 | ||
| Learn about birds, geology and plants of Sehome Arboretum June 5 | "Want to know what bird was singing or the name of the wildflower you saw one day while strolling through Sehome Arboretum? Or maybe you're curious about the ancient history of Sehome Hill. You can find the answers Saturday, June 5, during the third annual "It's Your… |
2010-06-04 | |
| That big rock sitting in the garden? Meteorite. | "A seemingly normal rock found in a ditch along a stretch of road in north central Oregon has turned out to be a stone from outer space that travelled across millions of miles and billions of years to reach Earth, according to researchers studying the stone. The 40-pound, cone-shaped… |
2010-06-03 | |
| Students prepare Sehome Arboretum for special day Saturday, June 5 | 2010-06-03 | ||
| Geology fundraiser set for Wednesday | 2010-05-25 |