Wake Audubon Meeting: Birds - but not as you know them

**Wake Audubon Monthly Meeting: Birds - but not as you know them (**Meeting is In Person and Zoom)
Time: Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 7:30 - 9:00 pm
Location: NCMNS - Nature Research Center, 121 W Jones St, Raleigh, Fourth floor meeting room

Topic: Birds - but not as you know them. Believe it or not, there are still dinosaurs alive today. We call this extant group of over 11,000 species of dinosaurs birds. The idea that dinosaurs and birds were related is an old one, but the fact birds ARE dinosaurs has really taken off in the late 20thcentury to now. New fossil finds and new technologies show us just how obvious this relationship is. Dr. Jennifer Anné from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences will guide us through a dissection of dinosaurs from the bones to the behavior to show that there’s no mistaking those family traits.

Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Anné (aka Indy) received her PhD from the University of Manchester, UK where she studied the chemistry of bone remodeling and repair using some very high tech science machines called synchrotrons. Her research focuses on using a variety of chemical analyses to determine what original biological material is preserved in fossils and how organisms become fossilized. Dr. Anné also studies palaeopathology, injuries and diseases in long dead patients, using her chemical background to help in the diagnosis. Not being species-est, she has studied everything from dinosaurs to manatees (and all vertebrates in between). She is currently applying her fossil preparation, histology and chemistry know-how at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, where she is the Assistant Lab Manager of the SECU DinoLab. When she’s not zapping fossils with X-ray, she’s traveling the world with a good book and playlist in hand.

This meeting will be held In-person + Zoom
Park (for free after 6:30 pm) and walk to the main museum entrance on Jones Street, just to the right of the giant globe. Since the NCSM is closed at night, someone will be at the door ONLY from 7 to 7:45 to let you in, so be on time. Take the elevator to the fourth floor meeting room. The east-facing entrance to the "old wing" of the museum will not be used. If you feel unwell, please stay home and enjoy our presentation over Zoom.
https://www.zoom.us/join

Meeting code: 831 3786 5298

• Password: 4Birds
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*Last updated 2025-03-20 by Beegle
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