This month Prof Mike Benton told us about what we know about dinosaurs and how we know it. He also shared some recent discoveries with us. The video of his talk will be available on the Communities YouTube Channel from 10am on 19th October via the link below:
Recordings of earlier U3A Communities Geology meetings can be found on the Geology playlist:
If you didn’t join the call and want to catch up, watch it again or just want more geology in your life please do take a look.
Here are a few related resources that might be of interest.
If you’d like to know what Bentonyx, the dinosaur named after Prof Benton looks like there’s an artist’s impression online:
There is more information on Yi qi, the dinosaur with bat like wings and feathers on Wikipedia:
For some of the latest news on dinosaur finds Phys.org is a good source:
Hope these are of interest and look out for the invitation to next months meeting when Dr Emma Nicholls will be telling us about life as a curator at some of the UK’s finest museums.
If you aren’t a member, it’s free to join here https://u3acommunities.org/geology-forum/.