Video and audio appearances

• Steve Trash Science “Fractions/Fossils” (July 8, 2023)
• Dr. John Abbott on Good Day Alabama for Bama Bug Fest (April 6, 2022)
• Anniversary of the Hodge’s meteorite falling to earth (November 30, 2021)
• Crawly Caterpillars (August 3, 2021)
• Odonata Central and Odolympics by John Abbott (June 20, 2021)
• Drs. Adiel Klompmaker and John Abbott in “Discovering Alabama’s Alabama Fossils” Episode (May 10, 2021)
• Dr. Adiel Klompmaker on Linnean Podcast – Episode #37: The Octopus: Drilling Through Time (March 29, 2021)
• Dr. Adiel Klompmaker in Alabama: In the Making documentary (August 16, 2020)
• Dr. John Abbott on WBRC: “Murder Hornets” (May 6, 2020)
• Dr. John Abbott on WBRC: “Summer Bugs in Alabama” (August 2, 2019)
• The Secret Lives of Dragonflies – Bugfest 2017 (September 19, 2017)

Articles

• Fish’s big mistake preserved an unusual fossil for us (September 20, 2023)
• From the Megalodon to surviving shark attacks, here are 10 shark myths (July 26, 2023)
• Rare Dinosaur ‘Bonebed’ Is Discovered in a Maryland Park (July 15, 2023)
• Crabs from Stevns Klint cause a stir at a conference in New Zealand (translated from Danish) (June, 29, 2023)
• Fossil trackways, invertebrates and plants to be displayed in UA’s Smith Hall on Saturday (April 7, 2023)
• Bug Out (June 8, 2022)
• Fossil of prehistoric lobster likened to beef jerky after discovery in Alabama creek (April 6, 2022)
• Woolly mammoths, sabertooth cats and more roamed Alabama in the last Ice Age (December 14, 2021)
• Alabama Black Belt among the world’s top sites to find ancient sea monsters (December 9, 2021)
• Alabama’s ancient coal swamps were a hot, sticky mess of giant trees and massive insects (December 3, 2021)
• Rare fossil captures ancient shrimp hiding inside a clam (November 15, 2021)
• Alabama’s Watery Past Is a Warning (September 11, 2021)
• Alabama’s Return to the Sea (September 8, 2021)
• You can look, but don’t touch-meet Alabama’s venomous caterpillars (August 5, 2021)
• Fossil found in Alabama resembles reptile skin, but looks are deceiving, experts say (July 21, 2021)
• A Shark, Eating a Squid, Eating a Lobster, in One Fossil (May 26, 2021)
• Spring’s 17-year-cicada swarms may raise some noise, but they’re not a plague, UA entomologist says (March 28, 2021)
• Here there be dragon(flie)s (March 21, 2021)
• Alabama entomologist part of international dragonfly database project (March 21, 2021)
• Predatory octopuses were drilling into clamshells at least 75 million years ago (March 6, 2021)
• A Historic Swam Is Coming (March 4, 2021)
• Relatives or Lookalikes? Mesozoic Crab Fossils Highlight Challenge of Convergent Evolution (September 17, 2020)
• UA Part of National Project to Study Dragonfly, Damselfly Evolution (August 6, 2020)
• Millions of Cicadas Are Coming to the East Coast (June 10, 2020)
• No, Tuscaloosa Isn’t Going To Be Overrun With Cicadas…Yet (June 10, 2020)
• Explore the Harrell Station paleontological site (March 6, 2019)
• How to create a dragonfly garden (July 2, 2018)
• Ticks 101: How to Avoid, Identify, and Respond to Ticks This Summer (May 23, 2017)
• Texas’ Rarest Dragonflies Tied to Rare Nocturnal Community, Pitcher-Plant Bog (February 9, 2016)

UA Museums Video Content

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Museums From Your Home

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