Welcome to PaleoFest 2025
Sunday Lecture Schedule
9:45 Opening Remarks
10:00 Dr. James Napoli, Stony Brook University
“Underestimating Dinosaurs: The Paleospecies Problem”
10:30 Dr. Spencer Hellert, Columbia College Chicago
“Small Mammals In A Large Tree: Examining The Timing Of The Early Therian Radiation Using A Novel Phylogenetic Metatree”
11:00 BREAK
11:30 Dr. Jon Hendricks, Milwaukee Public Museum
“Glowing venomous seashells: ultraviolet light reveals the ancient color patterns of fossil cone snails”
12:00 Erin Fitzgerald, University of Chicago
“Paleo. Art. And back again: An Artist’s Journey”
12:30 – 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 Claire Williams, University of Texas
“How can fossils save the world? Combining paleontology with conservation to support a reef sanctuary in east Portland, Jamaica”
2:30 Dr. Arjan Mann, Field Museum of Natural History
“Big, Scary, and possibly Pink: A new and virtually complete, serpentine lysorophian from the Kinney Brick Quarry of New Mexico”
3:00 BREAK
3:30 Rachel Narducci, University of Florida
“Paleoneurology of Xenarthra: Reconstructing brain features and life habits of extinct armadillos and sloths”
4:00 Dr. Thomas Holtz, University of Maryland
“Current Controversies in the Dinosaur Family Tree”
About Burpee Museum’s PaleoFest
Since 1999, PaleoFest has become an internationally recognized and respected program that celebrates the science of Paleontology. PaleoFest is an exemplary program to excite, educate, and inspire all people in science. This 3-day event includes many educational programs and activities for all levels of interest in paleontology. Each year, PaleoFest attracts nearly 2,000 visitors and some of the biggest names in the field.