We would like to invite you to join us for a Zoom Lecture Event with Dr Daniel Field – Lecturer in Vertebrate Palaeontology, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Fellow of Christ’s College.
Thursday 17 December 2020 18:00 to 19:00 GMT
BIRDWATCHING ON A COSMIC SCALE
Daniel is an evolutionary palaeobiologist at the University of Cambridge (Department of Earth Sciences), and a research associate in palaeontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. He is a Fellow of Christ’s College, and holds a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship. Originally from Canada, he received a PhD from Yale in 2017.
Daniel uses the fossil records of birds to help answer questions about how, where, and when Earth’s modern avian diversity arose. Earlier this year, his research group revealed the oldest fossil evidence of modern birds yet discovered—a 66.7-million-year-old fossil bird, nicknamed “The Wonderchicken”, that provides unprecedented insight into the evolutionary origins of modern birds during the Age of Dinosaurs.
A question and answer session will follow the talk.
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