Alton Dooley

We discovered a new species of mastodon!If you've followed our lab notes over the last several years, you've seen that as we accumulated more and more data from our project, California mastodons st...

It has been more than a year since my last post, but it has been a year well spent. Our research project has finally come to fruition, a manuscript has been submitted and accepted, and will be offi...

It’s been several months since I posted an update, and quite a lot has happened in that time. In August the Western Science Center hosted the Valley of the Mastodons Symposium and Exhibit. A group ...

Over the last two weeks, in addition to preparations for the upcoming Valley of the Mastodons exhibit and workshop, I also found the time to visit two more museum collections. First was the Santa B...

I apologize for the lack of updates. But I promise it's not due to lack of activity, but rather because of an excess. So we have lots of new things to report!First, back in March I made a brief tri...

After obtaining measurements a few weeks ago from Alaska and Yukon mastodon teeth, it became clear that it would be necessary to examine additional specimens from the Pacific coast states. All of t...

Last Saturday I attended the annual Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Prescott, AZ, where I presented an update on the Mastodons of Unusual Size project. The...

During our Mastodons of Unusual Size road trip, we examined a large amount of material that couldn't be included in our dataset. In most cases this was because the teeth were too da...

After returning from the SVP meeting I was tied up working on the museum's 2017 budget, but now I have a chance to give a brief report.At SVP poster sessions, the posters are groupe...