The Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, Kansas, could close to the public this December after state budget cuts at Fort Hays State University. A Hays foundation is matching gifts to save it dollar for dollar, up to $1 million. https://fossi.ls/sternberg

Happy National Fossil Day™. The animal on the logo is a titanothere, a rhino-sized plant eater with a forked horn on its nose. Its bones still weather out of the Badlands of South Dakota, some 34 million years after it lived. https://fossi.ls/nfd-pn

New from the network. #Paleostream 3, Joschua Knüppe's third book of stream sketches, goes to Kickstarter on Monday, November 2. Follow the pre-launch page and you'll know the moment it opens. https://fossi.ls/ps3

Pterosaurs: The Field Guide just funded, closing at $61,525 from 965 backers, more than five times its goal. A full-color guide to every known pterosaur from 252MYA, painted entirely by hand. Ships in January. Late pledges still open: fossi.ls/ks

PaleoTube just went live. Every great paleontology video on YouTube, organized by time period and taxon. @paleotube.com — https://fossi.ls/fZz9gG/bs

A book from inside the network. Pterosaurs: The Field Guide, five years in the making, is funding on Kickstarter now. Every known pterosaur species, illustrated. https://fossi.ls/ks

Pterosaurs: The Field Guide launches on Kickstarter this Saturday, August 1 at 10 AM Eastern. @pterosaursfieldguide.com — 388 pages, over 200 genera, every one illustrated. Published by 252MYA. https://fossi.ls/fgKS/bs

Pterosaurs: The Field Guide just showed the printed hardcover for the first time. Five years, twenty illustrators, 200+ genera. Kickstarter launches August 1. https://fossi.ls/Nev1YT/bs #Pterosaurs #PaleoArt

Paleontology has a new home. The Paleo Network is a set of independent sites, each covering its own slice of the fossil record, all built to actually be good. Some are open now, more coming. paleo.network