DinoBite: Andrew Milner, Ph. D.

Saturday, January 25, 2:00 - 2:25 p.m.

Swimming With Dinosaurs: What Traces and Traces Tell Us About Aquatic Behaviors of Dinosaurs

Tracks and traces of dinosaurs and other animals provide valuable information about animal behaviors. Some of the more common behavioral examples include walking, running, limping, sitting, and even swimming. There are a wide variety of aquatic animal traces known in the fossil record including those produced by different kinds of dinosaurs. Andrew will discuss the different kinds of dinosaur traces, what animals may have produced them, and how these creatures interacted with their environments.

About the Speaker

Andrew Milner, Ph. D., is the Lead Paleontologist and Curator at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site in St. George, Utah. He has been involved with this unique Early Jurassic dinosaur track site since it was discovered in February 2000, and his main focus of research is on Triassic – Early Jurassic vertebrate tracks, traces, and body fossils from across the American Southwest. Additionally, Milner has a wide variety of research interests. For example, he worked five field seasons at the Cambrian Burgess Shale in British Columbia, and he continues his research on the Late Pleistocene Champlain Sea fossils from eastern Canada.