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The Alf Museum’s newly renovated Hall of Life is now open to the public, with updated displays, new interactive exhibits, and lots of great fossils. Learn about the latest scientific discoveries, meet a T. rex, touch a mammoth tusk, and so much more!

Alf Museum Elephant

Decades after discovery, a proboscidean (elephant) skull collected near Barstow, California, and housed in the collections of the Alf Museum, is making its official debut to the scientific community. This 15 million year old specimen represents one of the most complete skulls of Zygolophodon ever collected in North America.

A Rare Bird Indeed

This tiny fossil from the Alf Museum’s collection has major importance. A project led by Augustyn Family Curator of Paleontology Dr. Andy Farke and Webb student Priyanka Patel ’12 has produced the first scientific description of a fossil bird from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah.

Introducing Dahalokely

This new meat-eating dinosaur from the island of Madagascar was named by an Alf Museum scientist. Dahalokely lived 90 million years ago, when Madagascar and India were still connected. Replicas of its bones are on display now at the Alf Museum.

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New Dinosaur from Madagascar Named by Alf Museum Scientist

Thursday, 18 April 2013 13:00 Alf Museum

A team of researchers led by an Alf Museum scientist has announced the first new species of dinosaur from Madagascar in nearly a decade, filling an important gap in the island's fossil record.

Last Updated on Thursday, 18 April 2013 16:56 Read more...

Digital Fossils at the Alf

Monday, 25 March 2013 17:22 Andrew Farke

Webb students with camel tracks they are imaging.

Paleontology is a global science, with researchers all over the world striving to understand more With over 150,000 fossil specimens, many of them representing extinct species found nowhere else, the Alf Museum is a critical resource. However, not every researcher who wants to study our specimens can get to the museum. Thanks to the expansion of digital scanning and archiving, Alf Museum specimens are more accessible than ever before.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 March 2013 08:00 Read more...

Tiny Tooth Yields Important Information to Alf Researchers

Wednesday, 29 August 2012 10:57 Andrew Farke

It doesn't look like much to the untrained eye, but a tiny tooth from Utah yielded some big information to researchers from the Alf Museum and The Webb Schools. A five millimeter-long premolar collected on a 2006 Alf Museum expedition turns out to be the first specimen of the rare fossil mammal Kimbetohia (pronounced "kim-buh-TOY-uh") from Utah. Kimbetohia is an extinct mammal called a multituberculate, and only a handful of specimens are known previously from New Mexico, Montana, and possibly Colorado. Additionally, the fossil helps to more certainly establish the uncertain age of rocks exposed in this part of Utah, to between 65.3 and 64.3 million years ago.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:56 Read more...