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Date
March 9, 2010
- Time 7:30 p.m.
- Location Chicago, IL
- Price Single event tickets start at $22
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Daniel Fisher
Photograph by Francis LatreilleIn May 2007, a reindeer herder in Siberia made an incredible discovery: the almost perfectly preserved body of a baby mammoth, which had been protected by permafrost for some 40,000 years since its death. As documented in the May 2009 National Geographic and in the National Geographic Channel film Waking the Baby Mammoth, one of the first scientists invited to study this invaluable find was Daniel Fisher, a University of Michigan paleontologist. Having spent over 30 years studying the giant mammals of the Pleistocene epoch, the opportunity was life-changing for Fisher. “Suddenly,” he recalls, “what I’d been struggling to visualize for so long was lying right there for me to touch.”
Complementing The Field Museum’s exhibition Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age (opening March 5), Fisher will tell Lyuba’s story, explaining what this treasured ambassador from the
Ice Age can teach us about her life and times.
This event is generously supported by the Segal Family Foundation II.
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