CMM-PR-16-32
May 10, 2016
For Immediate Release - Also include in community calendars

THE TURTLE STORY
All ages welcome on Saturday, May 21

Come learn about the evolution of turtles on Saturday, May 21 at the Calvert Marine Museum. Dr. Hans-Dieter Sues will present “The Turtle Story: The Origin and Evolution of an Unusual Body Plan” at 2:30 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Dr. Hans-Dieter Sues is Curator of Vertebrae Paleontology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Editor and author of several research publications; Dr. Sues specializes in Paleozoic and Mesozoic tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates).

This talk is sponsored by the Clarissa and Lincoln Dryden Endowment for Paleontology at the Calvert Marine Museum.
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