Museum Research and Collections
Welcome to the Department of Museum Research and Collections. This department is a new addition to the University of Alabama Museums. It was created in 2016 and under the Direction of Dr. John C. Abbbott. It is responsible for overseeing the management and curation of the University of Alabama Museums collections and developing interdisciplinary research programs across the University that focus on museum-based research. The department is made up of five full-time staff and works closely with 14 curators across six different university departments.
News
Photo: Callosamia angulifera – Tulip-tree Silkmoth. Taken by John Friel. This year’s MothFest was a huge success! The attendance Read More
Photograph of “Sweetie” the Mosasaur fossil laid out to near her full length. In February of 2018, paleontologists Dr. Takehito Read More
ND33: Mound Place Incised, variety unspecified. Simple bowl with lug and rim effigy (bird, flat inward facing head) In 1980, Read More
Publications
The skull of living birds is greatly modified from the condition found in their dinosaurian antecedents. Bird skulls have an enlarged, toothless premaxillary beak and …
Late Cretaceous members of Peritresius belong to a diverse clade of marine adapted turtles currently thought to be some of the earliest representatives of the …
Paleozoic holocephalian tooth plates are rarely found articulated in their original positions. When they are found isolated, it is difficult to associate the small, anterior …
Decades of collecting from exposures of the Upper Cretaceous Tombigbee Sand Member of the Eutaw Formation and Mooreville Chalk in Alabama, USA has produced large …