Dinosaurs: How we know what we know - Mike Benton (Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Bristol)

Tuesday, 20 October 2026, 18:00 at Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry - [All talks are free to attend.]Here, we explore the spread of hypothesis testing in modern palaeobiology in the past 60 years.

Our focus is dinosaurs, and we show how standard techniques in functional biomechanics, ecology, and evolution are now applied even-handedly to modern and fossil taxa to supplant the earlier, …