Ted Daeschler @ Science on Tap 7/13, National Mechanics 6pm

Posted on | June 29, 2009 | No Comments

Ted Daeschler, curator of vertebrate zoology at the Academy of Natural Science and co-discoverer of Tiktaalik, will present this month at Science on Tap at National Mechanics. I went to last month’s show and I must say that it is a great venue (which could benefit from a riser for the speaker, a box, something!).

“Cold Hard Science: Fossil Discoveries in the Canadian Arctic and the Origin of Limbed Animals”
Daeschler, Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Academy of Natural Sciences, has done pioneering research collecting and describing Late Devonian fossil vertebrates in Pennsylvania and the Arctic. Presented by the Academy of Natural Sciences.

Here’s some video I took of Ted at the Hadrosaurus exhibit this past January.

Wow, that totally broke the site. Turn up your volume and listen.

Also, this, Ted believes.

I take the long view on life, the really long view that a geological perspective provides. Most of us think of history in terms of hundreds of years, or maybe thousands of years. But what about a million years? 10 million years? 100 million years? Now we’re talking about enough time to really get something done – yet 100 million years is still only a small fraction of the earth’s history. Thinking in terms of many millions of years is the realm of deep time.

Read the whole thing.

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