A palaeontologist from The University of Manchester is set to walk the red carpet in Hollywood as the lead expert and Executive Producer of a new documentary WHY DINOSAURS?, which offers a ground-breaking exploration of our prehistoric world.Dr Dean Lomax, a world-renowned palaeontologist and an Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Manc.
Sixty-six million years ago, the Cretaceous period ended. Dinosaurs disappeared, along with around 90% of all species on Earth. The patterns and causes of this extinction have been debated since palaeontology began. Was it a slow, inevitable decline, or did the end come quickly, driven by a sudden, unpredictable disaster? Georges Cuvier, working in the early 19th century, was one of the first palaeontologists. He believed that geological catastrophes, or “revolutions”, drove waves of sudden exti