Talk

Lyme Regis Fossil Festival: Living dinosaurs – how we know what we think we know

Saturday 13 June 2026

Listen to Professor Michael J. Benton from the University of Bristol as he speaks as part of Lyme Regis' Fossil Festival.

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Starts 1:00 P.M.
Adults £7.00
Under 18s £4.00

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Listen to Professor Michael J. Benton from the University of Bristol as he speaks as part of Lyme Regis' Fossil Festival.

How can we know how dinosaurs behaved without a time machine? Until recently, much discussion of dinosaur habits was entirely speculative. But in the last 30 years, remarkable new fossils and remarkable new technologies have revealed unexpected information about dinosaur lifestyles. For example, we can now work out the colour of dinosaurs, their bite forces, top speeds, and even how they cared for their young. New fossil finds, such as dinosaur eggs with skeletons of the embryos inside from Patagonia and dinosaurs with feathers from China, provide extraordinary new information.


The talk will be followed by a Q&A and a book signing. This event is 1 hour.