{"id":28345,"date":"2022-10-11T10:40:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T07:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/?p=28345"},"modified":"2022-10-25T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T07:26:06","slug":"george-lyras-dinosaurs-in-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/old-news-en\/george-lyras-dinosaurs-in-the-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lyras: &#8220;Dinosaurs in the Movies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The title alone causes excitement! Everyone&#8217;s first thought -for sure- goes to a well-known action movie!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr George Lyras, vertebrate palaeontologist, comes to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.athens-technopolis.gr\/index.php\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Athens Science Festival<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and present the cinematic dinosaurs in a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">series of movies, from the Lost World (1925) to Jurassic World Dominion (2022). He will point out some common mistakes in the dinosaur movies and will present our current scientific understanding of these iconic animals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is a dinosaur anyway? How accurately are dinosaurs depicted in the movies?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Believers and dinosaur lovers, and as long as you are older than 10 years old, come and learn what you didn\u2019t know about them!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>George Lyras&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is a vertebrate paleontologist. His research focuses on the study of mammalian evolution. He has excavated in many sites in Greece and abroad. He is Associate Professor, at the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.uoa.gr\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National and Kapodistrian University of Athens<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Book your ticket now!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">General admission: 5 euros<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title alone causes excitement! Everyone&#8217;s first thought -for sure- goes to a well-known action movie! Dr George Lyras, vertebrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-old-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28345"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29478,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28345\/revisions\/29478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}