Michael Benton

World-renowned palaeontologist Professor Michael Benton brings along a few props to explain how dinosaurs evolved, how they behaved and how they became extinct in this family friendly event.

Benton explains how dinosaurs lived and courted, how they fought and ate, and how they interacted with each other. He says cutting edge techniques and forensic science are throwing new light on dinosaurs. We can now tell how they looked, how fast they ran, their feeding habits and their social behaviours.

Benton is professor of vertebrate palaeontology at the University of Bristol and a fellow of the Royal Society. His previous books include Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World, Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology, and When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time.

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