LIVE: Talking Triceratops
A world-renowned paleontologist is here to tell us about what it was like here in the region when Triceratops, T-Rex and other beloved dinosaurs lived -- right where we do now.
GRAND FORKS — It’s hard to tricera-top this for fascinating.
One of the world’s premier dinosaur paleontologists is in the northern valley Friday to tell us what it was like here when some of the most beloved dinosaurs roamed the region.
John Scannella studies Triceratops and the Hell Creek formation at the Museum of the Rockies.
He’s the John R. Horner Curator of Paleontology there.
You might recognize the name: his predecessor Horner is famous for finding evidence some dinosaurs cared for their young, and for helping along the now widely-accepted idea birds evolved from dinosaurs, aamong other
Horner also worked as the technical adviser for Steven Spielberg on the Jurassic Park films.
Scannella is at UND for a presentation on what it was like when Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus rex, and the dome-headed Pacycephalosaurus lived in the Dakotas and Montana.
His talk covers the part of the Cretaceous period just before they went extinct, 66 million years ago.
It was then very different from the icy-cold place we call home.
Scannella Zoomed in live to the Morning Show to talk with its biggest Triceratops fan about why it might be that so many of us fall in love with Triceratops, T-rex, and the other popular dinosaur species, and what you probably don’t know about these incredibly popular prehistoric animals.
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