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2/21/05
DINOSAUR EXPERT TO GIVE SLU LECTURE
CANTON – Philip J. Currie, curator of dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum
of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, will give the 2005 Susan
Carolyn Ferguson Lecture in Geology on "Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origin
of Birds" at St. Lawrence University, on Thursday, March 3, at 8 p.m. in
Bloomer Auditorium (Room 122, Brown Hall). The event is open to the
public, free of charge.
A graduate of McGill University and an adjunct associate professor
at the University of Calgary, Currie is the author or co-author of 13 books
as well as a great number of academic articles and papers.
In recent years, some of the most significant specimens for
understanding the evolution from dinosaurs to birds have been recovered
from the Lower Cretaceous rocks (120 to 145 million years old) of
northeastern China. These include more than 1,000 specimens of the primitive
bird Confuciusornis, and more than 20 skeletons of at least six species of
dinosaurs with feathers. Although no dinosaur specimens have been found with
preserved feathers in North America, many of the Late Cretaceous species
from Alberta and other regions are closely related to the feathered dinosaurs
of China. It is highly likely that most of the Late Cretaceous theropods
of the Northern Hemisphere, including tyrannosaurs, were feathered.
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A List
2/21/05
DINOSAUR EXPERT TO GIVE SLU LECTURE
CANTON – Philip J. Currie, curator of dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum
of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, will give the 2005 Susan
Carolyn Ferguson Lecture in Geology on "Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origin
of Birds" at St. Lawrence University, on Thursday, March 3, at 8 p.m. in
Bloomer Auditorium (Room 122, Brown Hall). The event is open to the
public, free of charge.
A graduate of McGill University and an adjunct associate professor
at the University of Calgary, Currie is the author or co-author of 13 books
as well as a great number of academic articles and papers.
In recent years, some of the most significant specimens for
understanding the evolution from dinosaurs to birds have been recovered
from the Lower Cretaceous rocks (120 to 145 million years old) of
northeastern China. These include more than 1,000 specimens of the primitive
bird Confuciusornis, and more than 20 skeletons of at least six species of
dinosaurs with feathers. Although no dinosaur specimens have been found with
preserved feathers in North America, many of the Late Cretaceous species
from Alberta and other regions are closely related to the feathered dinosaurs
of China. It is highly likely that most of the Late Cretaceous theropods
of the Northern Hemisphere, including tyrannosaurs, were feathered.
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