July 15, 2001... The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County hosted a public symposium featuring several prominent paleontologists discussing their recent research regarding dinosaurs, dinosaur eggs, and dinosaur embryos.

First, Phil Currie of the Tyrrell Museum in Alberta discussed recent discoveries of dinosaur eggs and embryos from China and Mongolia. Next, Lowell Dingus of the InfoQuest Foundation, described recent expeditions sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History to Mongolia, along with a new theory about how the dinosaurs of the ancient Gobi Desert may have been killed by avalanches of wet sand down enormous sand dunes. Frankie Jackson of Montana State University illustrated recent discoveries of dinosaur eggs and embryos from the late Cretaceous deposits of Montana. Rodolfo Coria of the Carmen Funes Museum in Plaza Huincuil, Argentina described some of the enormous new carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaurs that have recently been discovered in Patagonia.

Finally, Luis Chiappe of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County provided a chronicle of the discoveries made at the sauropod nesting site in Patagonia called Auca Mahuevo, which serves as the focus for the new temporary exhibition at his museum.

More than 350 visitors attended the lectures.