Another great line up of speakers are on today at Burpee Museum’s PaleoFest in Rockford, Illinois. Individual Tickets for lectures: $10/non-member, $9/member.  Includes admission to selected lectures ONLY. Museum admission is required to attend lectures. One/One Special: $15 Includes one day admission and your choice of one lecture. Savings of $5, great for students! More information available.

10:30 – 11:30 am  Virginia Naples, Ph.D. Professor at Norther Illinois University: South American Mammals: Placentals and Marsupials Alike!

12:00 – 1:00 pm  Matthew Bonnan, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biology, Western Illinois University: A Sound Of Distant Thunder: How A New Dinosaur Illuminates the Beginnings of the Dinosaur Giants.

2:00 – 3:00 pm Holly Woodward, Doctoral Student, Museum of the Rockies, Diminutive Dinosaurs, Enigmatic Ediacara, and MEGA-Marsupials: Fascinating Fossils from Down Under

3:30- 4:30 pm Robert Reisz, Ph.D. Professor and Chair of Biology, University of Toronto, Mississuaga: Those Mysterious Parareptiles: Their Evolutionary HIstory in Gondwana, and the Permo-Triassic Extinctions.

PHOTO: Bill Hammer, Ph.D., Professor of Geology and Fryxell Geology Museum Chair/ Director, Augustana College answers a question after his lecture on Saturday about “From Giant Amphibians to Dinosaurs: Antartctica During th eAge of Reptiles.