Anne Firlit-Weerda
Neuroethology of Adaptive Radiation:
From Fish Brains to Public Curiosity
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Dr. Thomas Holtz, University of Maryland
“A Small State with Some Big Dinosaurs: Maryland in the Mesozoic”
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Lena Cole, University of Oklahoma
“Going with the flow: reconstructing ancient communities and ecological evolution from the crinoid fossil record
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Dr. Kelsey Arkle
“Applying a Modern Analog Technique to Foraminifera to Track Neogene Paleo-Water Depths of the Southern Basin in Trinidad”
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Lauren Wilson, Princeton University
“The evolution of palatal development in the common ancestor of living birds”
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First talk of Sunday morning at PaleoFest:
Dr. Kimi Chappelle, Stony Brook University
“Life at the dawn of dinosaur reproduction: growth and faunal diversity from one of the oldest known dinosaur nesting sites”
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Let's hear it for talented professional fossil preparators!
-From talk on Chicago's Archaeopteryx by Dr. Jingmai O’Connor at PaleoFest in Rockford, Illinois, March 7, 2026.
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Fatima Husain, MIT
“Eukaryotic life from a Snowball Earth analogue environment on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica”
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John Moretti, University of Texas
“Exploration of water caves in central Texas reveals previously unknown aspects of the Ice Age animal community”
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Madelyn Turala
East Tennessee State University
“Estimating body size of extinct crocodilians based on skeletal remains
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Her kids when she started working the site, and now, still working it... just the tip of the iceberg
Mary Droser
“Animals, Sediments, Slime, Muck and Goo: The Record of Earth’s Early Animals and their Environments with Implications for Discovering Life Elsewhere”
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Reg Sprigg, explorer and Geologist, is on Australia's hundred dollar bill.
Mary Droser
“Animals, Sediments, Slime, Muck and Goo: The Record of Earth’s Early Animals and their Environments with Implications for Discovering Life Elsewhere”
#PaleoFest2026 #BurpeeMuseum
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Mary Droser
“Animals, Sediments, Slime, Muck and Goo: The Record of Earth’s Early Animals and their Environments with Implications for Discovering Life Elsewhere”
#PaleoFest2026 #BurpeeMuseum
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Evolutionary changes to therizinosaurians over time.
Willie Friemuth, North Carolina State University
"Utah’s Sister Sickle-Makers: paleobiological insights from two therizinosaurian bonebeds”
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Galcarius utahensis, earliest known:therizinosaurian
Willie Friemuth, North Carolina State University
"Utah’s Sister Sickle-Makers: paleobiological insights from two therizinosaurian bonebeds”
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First PaleoFest speaker of the morning:
Willie Friemuth, North Carolina State University
"Utah’s Sister Sickle-Makers: paleobiological insights from two therizinosaurian bonebeds”
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Does tooth count change during growth?
Dr. James Napoli: “Nanotyrannus lethaeus: how new evidence revealed Rockford’s own tyrannosaur species was hiding in plain sight”
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Rockford, Illinois, USA.
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Comparing hatchlings of Chinese and American alligators to see if they display differences from an early age.
Dr. James Napoli: “Nanotyrannus lethaeus: how new evidence revealed Rockford’s own tyrannosaur species was hiding in plain sight”
#PaleoFest2026 #BurpeeMuseum
Rockford, Illinois, USA.
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"Jane" vs. Tyrannosaurus
Dr. James Napoli: “Nanotyrannus lethaeus: how new evidence revealed Rockford’s own tyrannosaur species was hiding in plain sight”
#PaleoFest2026 #BurpeeMuseum
Rockford, Illinois, USA.
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A small fraction of the paper's exploring the validity of Nanotyrannus
Dr. James Napoli: “Nanotyrannus lethaeus: how new evidence revealed Rockford’s own tyrannosaur species was hiding in plain sight”
#PaleoFest2026 #BurpeeMuseum
Rockford, Illinois, USA.
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Dr. James Napoli: “Nanotyrannus lethaeus: how new evidence revealed Rockford’s own tyrannosaur species was hiding in plain sight” all about one of our favorite dinosaurs, Jane!
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Rockford, Illinois, USA.
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"We love you Jane! We don't care what you are!"
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Dr. James Napoli
Nanotyrannus lethaeus "Jane" Burpee Museum, Rockford, Illinois, USA
Let the #PaleoFestivities begin!
First up is a talk by Dr. James Napoli: “Nanotyrannus lethaeus: how new evidence revealed Rockford’s own tyrannosaur species was hiding in plain sight” all about one of our favorite dinosaurs, Jane!
#PaleoFest2026 #BurpeeMuseum
Rockford, Illinois, USA.
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Jane.
BMRP 2002.4.1.
+ Skeleton.
Nanotyrannus / Young Tyrannosaurus rex. (?)
#HellCreekFormation #Nanotyrannus #Youngtrex #dinosaur #tyrannosaur #Jane #Theropod #cretaceous #cretaceousperiod #paleoart #palaeoart #paleontology #palaentology #prehistory #prehistoricanimal #animal #Burpeemuseum
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Love our Homer
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Hard to believe a week has already gone by! #PaleoFest #BurpeeMuseum
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Henry Thomas with his newly described pterosaur neck vertebra from the new species now named "Infernodrakon". The bone was found under the fossil bones of "Jane" the Tyrannosaurus rex currently displayed at Burpee. This is the first pterosaur to be named from the Hell Creek. #PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum
Henry Thomas with newly described pterosaur neck vertebra from the new species now named "Infernodrakon". The bone was found under the fossil bones of "Jane" the Tyrannosaurus rex currently displayed at Burpee. This is the first pterosaur to be named from the Hell Creek.
#PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum
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Henry Thomas with his newly described pterosaur neck vertebra from the new species now named "Infernodrakon". The bone was found under the fossil bones of "Jane" the Tyrannosaurus rex currently displayed at Burpee. This is the first pterosaur to be named from the Hell Creek. #PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum
Henry Thomas with newly described pterosaur neck vertebra from the new species now named "Infernodrakon". The bone was found under the fossil bones of "Jane" the Tyrannosaurus rex currently displayed at Burpee. This is the first pterosaur to be named from the Hell Creek.
#PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum
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