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
Wednesday, February 26: Andre Gogol, Parkland Secondary School
Exploring Methods in Fossil Photography
For the online presentation, register on Zoom.
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
For the online presentation, register on Zoom.
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
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
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
May 1: Corwin Sullivan, University of Alberta
From Dragon Bones to Dino-Birds: The Rise of Vertebrate Palaeontology in China
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