Finding Your Inner Fish Lecture

The University of Cincinnati Department of Geology and the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History & Science Insights Lecture Series present "Finding Your Inner Fish" with lecturer Neil H. Shubin, Ph.D. Dr. Shubin is Paleontologist and Professor of Anatomy at the University of Chicago and Provost, The Field Museum. He will talk about is discovery of the Tiktaalik roseae animal. It has been dubbed the "missing link" between land animals and fish.

Holotype copy of Tiktaalik roseae in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Photo by Eduard Solà from Wikipedia
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

This event happens May 19, 2011 (Thursday) in the Reakirt Auditorium at the Cincinnati Museum. A reception will be held at 6 PM EST with viewing of the Tiktaalik roseae followed by a lecture at 7:30 PM. Dr. Shubin will have a signing at 9 PM for his book Your Inner Fish: A Journey Through the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Pantheon Press). Learn more at amazon.com

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Directions to the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and Science can be found here: http://www.cincymuseum.org/information_center/hours_admissions_directions/

Extraordinary Fossils Lecture by Derek Briggs

Trinity College Dublin posted a fossil lecture video on YouTube on December 23, 2010. The lecture is by Professor Derek Briggs, Director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History entitled Extraordinary fossils Windows on the history of life on Earth. The location was the Botany Lecture Theatre of Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Lecture was given on December 10, 2010.

Learn more about Derek Briggs HERE and the Briggs Laboratory HERE Thanks to pleecan for posting a message about this video on the Fossil Forum.