Events

Growing Up a Dinosaur

A Presentation for Kids by World-Renowned Paleontologist Jack Horner


Thursday, February 16, at 5:00 pm - Free Admission to Museum and Presentation

 

Friday, February 17, at 4:30 pm - This session is full

 

Suggested age range:  6 to 13

Yale Peabody Museum, 3rd floor auditorium

 

Preregister to ensure seating: Email peabody.pr@yale.edu to hold up to 4 seats per reservation**

 

Jack Horner, curator of paleontology at Montana State University’s Museum of the Rockies, is known for his groundbreaking discoveries of the first dinosaur eggs in the Western Hemisphere, the first evidence of dinosaur colonial nesting, the first evidence of parental care among dinosaurs, and the first dinosaur embryos. He is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost paleontologists, noted for his fieldwork and some of the best reconstructions of fossil dinosaurs ever assembled. Horner is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant." He served as the technical adviser for all three of the Jurassic Park movies and is the inspiration for the movie's lead character, Dr Alan Grant. The Museum of the Rockies, as the result of Horner's continuing fieldwork, has the largest Tyrannosaurus rex collection in the world.

 

**Arrive early. Reserved seats will be released five minutes before the talk begins to visitors who might be waiting.