The history of Tilden Park is surprisingly rife with paleontology and geology. Read on to learn your way around UC Berkeley’s “backyard!”

In 1957, the radio show “The University Explorer” featured the work done by Berkeley scientists on fossil amber-encased insects of Chiapas, Mexico. Read on for more information and the full transcript of the show.

Jere has just accepted the position of Director of Orange County’s John D. Cooper Center for Archaeological and Paleontological Curation and Research. Learn more about their collection and Jere’s new role.

Learn more about micropaleontologist Ken Finger’s “bug-men” discovery.

Congratulations to Leslea Hlusko, UCMP curator and Professor of Integrative Biology, on her selection as a 2011 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

UCMP’s Allison Stegner discusses the importance of the Neogene Mammal Mapping Portal (NeoMap), which holds records of mammalian fossils from the last 30 million years in North America.

In addition to extensive vertebrate, microfossil, plant, and marine invertebrate collections, UCMP is proud to house a large collection of amber-encased insect specimens. Read on to find out more about how this amber collection came to be.

Grad student Kaitlin Maguire has researched and written a new feature on the Proboscidea — elephants and their relatives — for the UCMP website.