Dinosaurs: From Fiction to Fact

Though it’s been 66 million years since dinosaurs have walked the Earth, they’ve never been more popular. What do film and TV shows get right about dinosaurs and what’s often wrong about the way they’re depicted? Could there ever actually be a Jurassic Park? Was it really a meteor that caused the extinction of dinosaurs? What did dinosaurs actually sound like?

Enjoy this fascinating live discussion with answers to viewer questions, moderated by National Geographic Science Writer Michael Greshko, with two paleontologists:

Jingmai O’Connor, associate curator of fossil reptiles at the Field Museum in Chicago, who earned her PhD in geological sciences at USC Dornsife in 2009

Kiersten Formoso, vertebrate paleobiology and functional morphology PhD candidate at USC Dornsife

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