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Dr. Bob Bakker at the Museum of Natural Science
Sponsored by HMNS - HGS
Friday 5-Nov-04 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM CDT
Houston Museum of Natural ScienceOne Hermann Circle DriveHouston TX 77030 Google Maps | Hotels Near | Yahoo! Maps | Weather Forecast | Speaker |
Event Description
Jurassic CSI: Dinosaurian Life & Death
$15 HMNS members, $18 HMNS non-members.
Dr. Robert Bakker is speaking as a special lecturer for Dino Days. Get your tickets quickly as Dr. Bakker's lecture will be a hit. As you recall Dr. Bakker is coming in part through the HGS significant donation of $2,500 to the HMNS for the event. He is world renowned, so order your tickets early as this is to be a certain sell-out and space is available for only 400 people.
Did dinosaurs hunt in packs? Was T. rex a ferocious predator, or merely a scavenging opportunist? Could spike-tailed stegosaurs launch deadly counter-attacks against Jurassic carnivores? And did devastating drought force herds of thunder lizards to make thousand-mile treks across the dried landscape?
Jurassic crime scene analysis can answer questions like these. Each fossilized bone or tooth is part of a crime scene. Dinosaur predators left their marks on their victims - tooth wounds on bones, broken shoulders and hips, scattering of splinters. Drought-kills and disease victims too carry evidence in the way the skeleton was buried. Forensic paleontologists excavate clues following the protocols of homicide detectives. The crime scene floor is the Jurassic soil surface where the victim was buried. Sometimes the floor reveals terrible environmental conditions and death by starvation. Sometimes the floor is the bottom of a dry-river bed that experienced a flash flood.
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Dr. Bob Bakker at the Museum of Natural Science
Sponsored by HMNS - HGS
Friday 5-Nov-04 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM CDT
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Biography
The legendary Dr. Bob Bakker is paleontology’s most recognized character. His name conjures up images of exciting discoveries and controversial theories. Bakker is credited with reshaping modern theories about dinosaurs.
Bob Bakker was a leader of the handful of iconoclastic paleontologists who rewrote the book on dinosaurs three decades ago. He and the others — notably John Ostram and Armand de Ricqules — changed the image of dinosaurs from slow-moving, slow-witted, cold-blooded creatures to, in at least some cases, warm-blooded giants well equipped to dominate the Earth for 200 million years. They argued that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds. And Bakker contended, long before feathered fossils were found, that some dinosaurs were endowed with insulating feathers. The debate on all those issues continues, sometimes hotly, but new discoveries and research lend strong support to what seem no longer to be minority views.
Dr. Bob Bakker at the Museum of Natural Science
Sponsored by HMNS - HGS
Friday 5-Nov-04 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM CDT
Houston Museum of Natural Science
One Hermann Circle DriveHouston TX 77030
Google Maps | Hotels Near | Yahoo! Maps | Weather Forecast
Dr. Bob Bakker at the Museum of Natural Science
Sponsored by HMNS - HGS
Friday 5-Nov-04 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM CDT
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