Jack Horner Lecture May 13, 2008

Noted paleontologist Dr. Jack Horner will be speaking at the Museum on May 13th. He is Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies, Regents Professor at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, and is Adjunct Curator at the National Museum of Natural History. Dr. Horner discovered the first dinosaur eggs in the Western Hemisphere, the first evidence of dinosaur colonial nesting, the first evidence of parental care among dinosaurs, and the first dinosaur embryos. Dr. Horner's research covers a wide range of topics about dinosaurs, including their behavior, physiology, ecology, evolution, and growth rate. His recent work has been on soft tissue analysis from a very rare Tyrannosaurus find with actual dinosaur proteins preserved in the core of a leg bone. In 2007, he headed an expedition to the Gobi Desert collecting more than 80 skeletons of Psittacosaurus. He has named several dinosaurs and had two dinosaurs named for him. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship ("genius grant"), Dr. Horner has dyslexia and hopes to inspire young people with learning differences about what can be achieved with persistence and support. He was a technical advisor on all the Jurassic Park movies as well as being the real scientist on which the character Dr. Alan Grant was loosely based.

Advance tickets are available online only. Online ticket sales will end 4 hours prior to the talk (3:00pm Mountain Time). Unsold tickets, if available, can be purchased the night of the talk at the Museum beginning at 5:15 p.m. Tickets will not be sold over the phone or at the Museum prior to that evening. All tickets are non-refundable. All ticketing is on a will call basis. Please be prepared to show photo identification upon check-in at the Museum. Museum Members will also be required to show your Membership Card if you purchased tickets with the Member discount.

Ticket Information:
Adult $12.00 + $2.00 Service Charge
Senior $10.00 + $1.50 Service Charge
Member $10.00 + $1.50 Service Charge
Child/Student $5.00 + $1.00 Service Charge

Official Website: http://naturalhistoryfoundation.org/horner.html