Walking With Gastonia: The Largest Concentration of Armored Dinosaurs

In eastern Utah, a massive two-acre bonebed preserves thousands of bones from the armored dinosaur Gastonia. This site, featured in the Walking With Dinosaurs episode "Band of Brothers", may hold the key to learning about how these Cretaceous heavyweights lived and died. Dr. Joshua Lively will take us through what we know about the site, the latest unpublished research, and future directions to unlock how this massive death assemblage formed.

JOSH LIVELY -- Dr. Josh Lively is a geoscientist and evolutionary biologist studying Late Cretaceous ecosystems, with a focus on freshwater turtles and mosasaurs. His research uses tools from paleontology, genetics, and the study of ancient rocks to understand how life evolved in response to changing environments. Lively has worked in over 20 museums worldwide and conducts annual fieldwork in the Intermountain West. He is the Curator of Paleontology at the Utah State University Eastern Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah.

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