Hunting for the Last Cretaceous Ecosystems of Peru

Join museum preparators Natalie Toth and Salvador Bastien for a 40-minute lecture exploring their fossil-hunting expedition to the Altiplano of southern Peru. Discover how these Denver Museum of Nature & Science experts, invited by DMNS prep lab alum Mario Gamarra Cuba, searched for fossils and the K/Pg boundary in this high-elevation region. Learn about their remarkable high-altitude fossil discoveries and gain insights into what happened in the southern hemisphere during what is considered the worst day for multicellular life on Earth.