Sandstorms to Snow Leopards: The Cretaceous Tourist in Mongolia

Kirk Johnson, PhD, in MongoliaKirk Johnson, PhD, chief curator and vice president, Research and Collections Division

In the summer of 1997, Johnson traveled to remote areas of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert with a Mongolian-Japanese-American team in search of fossil plants from the time of the dinosaurs. Join Johnson for a lively evening as he describes his experiences with Asian dinosaurs, extinct plant life, and wrestling in central Asia.

Thursday, December 10
7:00 p.m.
Phipps IMAX Theater; use IMAX Evening Entrance
$12 member, $15 nonmember

 

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This program is presented in concert with International Year of Planet Earth, a global initiative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). See www.yearofplanetearth.org for more information. For more information about the lecture series, see www.geosociety.org/IYPE.

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