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New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science

Jack Horner, Ph.D., Paleontologist

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7 p.m.

Noted paleontologist Dr. Jack Horner will be speaking at the Museum in May. 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.

Tickets: $12 adult/ $10 members & seniors/ $5 students plus on-line service charge.

Tickets are available on line at: www.NaturalHistoryFoundation.org/horner.html

Advance tickets are available online only. Online ticket sales will end 4 hours prior to the talk. Any unsold tickets can be purchased the night of the talk at the Museum beginning at 4:30 p.m.
Tickets will not be sold over the phone or at the Museum prior to that evening.
All tickets are non-refundable.

All talks are at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science
1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104
505-841-2800
Check our website at: www.NMnaturalhistory.org
Questions? Call Tish Morris at 505-841-2882.
You may reserve tickets (for all but Jack Horner) by contacting Chris Sanchez at 841-2872, chris.sanchez@state.nm.us

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