02/04/2022
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Free
Event information
Time
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Price
Free

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums site, 14 Pembroke Street, CB2 3QY

With the link between Dinosaurs and birds now firmly established, work to uncover how and when modern bird diversity arose is well underway. Assistant Professor Daniel Field, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge and Strickland Curator of Ornithology, University Museum of Zoology will discuss some of the exciting new discoveries he and his research group have made including finding one of the best preserved fossil bird skulls in the world. Asteriornis maastrichtensis, or the Wonderchicken as it’s become known dates from the time of the dinosaurs and helps shed light on the evolutionary origins of modern birds.

Find out more about Asteriornis with this online display

The lecture will be at the New Museums site NOT the Sedgwick Museum. Booking is required.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums site, 14 Pembroke Street, CB2 3QY

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