Dinos Among Us After Hours

We’re resurrecting the dinos! Come enjoy a trip through the Jurassic, in the company of your dino-peers. Travel through time in Plantosaurus Rex, and then go back to school with Berkeley PhD candidate Sarah Werning, who shares her field work on what we can learn from dino bones.

Locally-crafted libations presented by Brewtruc, Social Kitchen and Oro en Paz.

$5 entry; $5 Beverages. FREE ENTRY if you dress as a dino!

Featured lecture: “Inside dinosaur bones: What bone tissues reveal about the life of fossil animals” Lecture from 7 – 8 pm, with Q&A to follow. Seating capacity limited to 99; first come, first serve.

Sarah Werning will catch you up to speed on the dino lessons that may be outdated from your school days. For hundreds of years, scientists have examined fossil bones to learn about the life of the past. Recently, a wealth of new information about the lives of dinosaurs and other extinct animals has come from an unexpected source - fossilized bone tissues. By cutting into fossils to examine the tissues preserved inside, we gain new information about the metabolism, lifespan, and even the sex lives of prehistoric species.

ABOUT THE LECTURER:
Sarah Werning is a PhD candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research explores how changes in bone tissues in the fossil record reflect the evolution of growth and metabolic rates in reptiles, birds, mammals, and their ancestors. Sarah has spent over a decade collecting dinosaurs and other fossil animals in the United States and Canada. She has a soft spot for scaly animals of the past and present.