How Dinosaurs Grew (and how we know)

Have you ever asked yourself: How did dinosaurs grow? How fast did they grow? Did they grow like other reptiles? Did they grow all through life? How old were they as adults? Did they live long after becoming adults? When did they start having babies?

If not, then you may suffer from DID (Dinosaur Interest Deficiency). This can be remedied. Come hear the latest evidence that explains why all of these questions, which we could not begin to answer 20 years ago, are now understood for a surprising variety of extinct dinosaurs and other reptiles. To learn why, we'll take you inside the bones of dinosaurs to show you how they grow and how we measure how old they were and how fast they were growing. You'll probably learn a bit about how you grow as well. And you'll learn how this relates to metabolism, and so to the seemingly endless question, 'Were dinosaurs warm-blooded'?.

Speaker: Kevin Padian, Professor of Integrative Biology and Curator in the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley.