Gijs Rademaker (44) is journalist en opiniepeiler bij EenVandaag (vanaf december bij RTL Nieuws). Daarnaast is Gijs van jongs af aan al een groot liefhebber van dinosauriërs. Samen met Maarten van Rossem maakt hij Dinocast, een populaire podcast over evolutie in de dinotijd. In Dinocast bezoeken Gijs en Maarten dinomusea in Nederland, België en Duitsland, […]
Prof. Dr. Martin Sander (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, DE)
On How to Become a Giant on Land and in the Sea: Lessons Learned from Sauropod Dinosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, and Whales Life will go where it can. Life thus will probe the extremes, and one of those is giant body size. Among animals, truly giant body size (over 20 tonnes body mass) was only reached by […]
Dr. Victoria Egerton (The Children’s Museum, USA; University of Manchester, UK)
The Jurassic Mile: a New Morrison Formation Assemblage The Big Horn Basin (Wyoming, USA) has yielded a unique dinosaur fauna when compared to the southern Morrison Formation but the relationship between the two is unclear. The Jurassic Mile in the Northern Big Horn Basin is a new field site that consists of a diverse assemblage […]
Zandmotorexcursie 2022
Op zondag 18 september 2022 zal alweer voor de vierde maal de Zandmotorexcursie plaatsvinden. Deze excursie georganiseerd door de Paleobiologische Kring zal wederom worden begeleid door de conservator van het Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam: Bram Langeveld. Naast begeleiding bij de excursie op het strand zal Bram ook vooraf een lezing geven over onder andere de verschillende fossielen die […]
Dr. Koen Stein (Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, BE)
How to age your dinosaur? Or why a small hole in your fossil is good for science. The sauropods were the largest animals to ever walk the earth. This imposes some physical and biological problems on their bodies. How did they grow so large? And how long did it take? With a brief introduction into […]
Dr. Susannah Maidment (Natural History Museum, UK)
Palaeoecology of the Morrison Formation, Upper Jurassic, western USA The Morrison Formation is a suite of rocks that were deposited by rivers and on flood plains between about 157 and 147 million years ago in what is now western North America. The Morrison flood plains were home to many of the most iconic dinosaurs, including […]
Jonathan Wallaard & Tom van der Linden (Oertijdmuseum, NL)
‘Diplodocus’ Kirby: Preparation, mounting and research In 2018, multiple partial diplodocid skeletons of three different individuals arrived from Switzerland in order to build a relatively complete ‘Diplodocus’ mount. In our talk, we will be discussing how the bones arrived at the Oertijdmuseum, and how they were prepared and cleaned by the volunteers using a wide […]
Ben Pabst (Aathal Sauriermuseum, CH)
The Howe Quarry area: A historic hotspot for sauropod research in the Morrison Formation. The Howe Quarry. A quarry in the northwestern corner of Wyoming, about 150 km east of Yellowstone Park at the western foothills of the Big Horn Mountains. It was first discovered in 1932 by Barnum Brown of the American Museum of […]