Join us for free talks exploring hot topics in palaeontology and results of current research.
All presentations will be hosted on Zoom and live, in-person in the Royal Tyrrell Museum’s Auditorium, Thursdays at 11 a.m., unless otherwise noted.
Please note: advance registration is required to attend online presentations. Registration links will be posted on this page the week before each talk occurs.
2025 Schedule
February 6: Alessandro Franchini, Southwestern Adventist University
An Unusual Vertebrate Microsite Formed by a Lag-Deposit in the Upper Cretaceous Lance Formation of Wyoming, USA
Watch the recording on YouTube.
February 13: Alfred Lemierre, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
The Quercy Phosphorites: A Unique Peek into the Ecosystem's Diversity of Southern France from the Eocene to the Miocene
February 20: Christiana Garros, University of Alberta
Broken, Bruised, and Bitten: Survival Tales of Tyrannosaur Injuries
Watch the recording on YouTube.
Wednesday, February 26: Andre Gogol, Parkland Secondary School
Exploring Methods in Fossil Photography
Watch the recording on YouTube.
March 6: Darren Tanke, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
Ongoing Epic Excavation of the Kaskie Hadrosaur Skeleton, One of the World’s Biggest Dinosaur Quarries, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta
March 13: Lisa Boucher, University of Texas-Austin
Landscape Paleoecology and the Evolution of Late Cretaceous Forests Along the Western Interior Seaway
March 20: Kiersten Formoso, Rutgers University
Going for a Swim: Influences of Terrestrial Ancestry on Land-to-Sea Transformations
Watch the recording on YouTube.
March 27: Todd Kristensen, Archaeological Survey of Alberta
Ice Mummies on Mountains: Archaeology of Frozen Corpses in British Columbia and Italy
April 3: Lauren Wilson, Princeton University
Cretaceous Arctic Birds from the Prince Creek Formation of Northern Alaska
April 10: Brian Davis, University of Louisville
Tiny Fossils and the Big Picture: Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs
Watch the recording on YouTube.
April 17: Bruce Archibald, Beaty Biodiversity Museum
Things Change When You Warm up Winters — What Fossils Tell us
April 24: Yan-Yin Wang, MacEwan University
Anatomy and Biomechanics of the Ribcage in Birds, Crocodiles, and Dinosaurs, with Implications on the Evolution of Ventilation
Watch the recording on YouTube.
May 1: Corwin Sullivan, University of Alberta
From Dragon Bones to Dino-Birds: The Rise of Vertebrate Palaeontology in China
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