Wednesday, November 22, 2017

An Aelurodon of My Own

Aelurodon ferox chasing Neohipparion, by Mauricio Anton
You know, I never blogged about my SVP 2017 experience, more out of sloth than anything else. I can wrap up my thoughts with this sentence: it was fun but very lonely. For me, perhaps the most enjoyable part of the conference was the silent auction. I should have stayed for the following “real” auction because photos posted to social media afterward made it look insane, but I had a bunch of meds to do and an early start the next morning. I bid on several items in the silent auction, most of them 3D prints of interesting fossils, but I was quickly outbid past my own point of comfort for most of them. However, I was able to secure this nifty specimen: