“The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs”
Speaker: Julia A. Clarke, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

How do we go beyond the bones to bring dinosaurs to life? Dr. Clarke explains the new toolkits she uses to study what dinosaurs might have sounded or looked like when they roamed the Earth.

Image: On what is now Vega Island, Antarctica some 69 million years ago, a medium-sized predatory dinosaur is shown using close-mouth vocal behavior while Vegavis iaai (the oldest known bird to preserve a modern-style avian vocal organ, known as a syrinx) calls and flies overhead. Image credit: Nicole Fuller/Sayo Art/The University of Texas at Austin.