Dinosaur Talk with Paleontologist Logan King

Brain Surgery on the Rocks: CT Scanning, Dinosaur Brains, and Extinct Animal Senses
Learn about paleontology work that’s happening in Northwest Colorado and beyond, as Dr. King explains how we can reconstruct the brains of long dead animals, especially dinosaurs, to see how they sensed the world around them.

Dr. Logan King is a professor and curator of paleontology at Colorado Northwestern Community College in Craig. Originally from a rural town in Alabama, he has traveled around the world in the pursuit of paleontological research. His work typically revolves around the evolution of the brain of archosaurs – the group of animals that includes dinosaurs, crocodilians, and birds – but he also will pursue any research that helps to clarify past environments and animal behavior. He has made digital models of brains, visited museum collections, and done fieldwork in the United States, China, Canada, and United Kingdom. At CNCC he teaches anatomy classes alongside general biology, geology, paleontology, and astronomy. He previously taught labs at the University of Bristol and taught vertebrate osteology to graduate students through the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.