Flying Dinosaurs: How fearsome reptiles became birds - a Brisbane Writers Festival Visiting Author Event

Event Details

Date:

Thursday, 04 September 2014 - Thursday, 04 September 2014

Time:

5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Room:

GHD Auditorium, Advanced Engineering Building #49, The University of Queensland, St Lucia

URL:

http://www.science.uq.edu.au/flying-dinosaurs

Event category(s):

Full Description:: Join Australian Geographic editor, John Pickrell, as he discusses how dinosaurs became the birds in our backyards.

His book Flying Dinosaurs: How fearsome reptiles became birds delves into the latest discoveries in China, the US, Europe and uncovers a thriving black market in fossils and infighting between dinosaur hunters, plus the controversial plan to use a chicken to bring dinosaurs back from the dead.

This free event is part of the Brisbane Writers Festival Visiting Author Program.