Expert to Present Program on Dinosaurs, Birds
Posted on: Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 12:00 CST
A program by dinosaur expert Philip Currie will be presented at the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck beginning at 7 p.m. Monday.
Currie is the curator of dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology in Alberta, Canada, where he has worked since 1989. The title of his presentation is "Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds."
His program, for children and adults alike, is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the State Historical Society of North Dakota, the North Dakota Geological Survey, the North Dakota Geological Society, and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Currie has appeared in more than 600 newspaper, magazine, radio, film and television programs and articles, including National Geographic and Time magazines, The New York Times, the NBC Today Show, the PBS Nova Series, and a CBS primetime program on dinosaurs.
One of the most intriguing and controversial subjects in paleontology today is the notion that birds evolved from dinosaurs. In recent years, some of the most compelling evidence for understanding the evolution of birds from dinosaurs has come from northeastern China, where fossils 120 to 145 million years old of primitive birds and dinosaurs with feathers have been found.
Currie has been one of the leading scientists in studying and interpreting these fossils. These include more than 1,000 specimens of the primitive bird Confuciusornis, and more than 20 skeletons of at least six specimens of dinosaurs with feathers. Although no dinosaur specimens have been found with preserved feathers in North America, many of the Late Cretaceous species (65 to 100 million years ago) from Canada and the United States are closely related to the feathered dinosaurs found in China.
Currie's work on dinosaurs focuses on growth and variation, the anatomy and relationships of carnivorous dinosaurs, and the origin of birds.
Source: Bismarck Tribune
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