Meet a Scientist: Weird and Wonderful Dicynodont Tusks
Schedule
Fri Aug 29 2025 at 11:00 am to 01:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
1400 S. Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive , Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60605 | Chicago, IL
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Join us as we look at 240 million-year-old dicynodont tusks and "thin-sections" under a microscope to uncover how these creatures lived and grew. ðĶMeet Megan Whitney, a Field Museum Researcher and Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago, and Kara Mia Ehler, a Lab Technician at Loyola University Chicago.ð§âðŽ
Dicynodonts are a weird and wonderful group of mammalian ancestors famous for being the first group to evolve tusks. This session takes a deep dive into dicynodont tusk fossils...and all the amazing biological information preserved inside. ðĶī
ð Included with Basic Admission
ð Grainger Science Hub
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1400 S. Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive , Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60605Event Location & Nearby Stays:
