Perot Museum of Nature and Science

Dallas Morning News: Paleontologist puts passion for fossils to use as curator at Perot Museum

Anthony Fiorillo excavates a Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum at a quarry in Alaska. (Credit: Dallas Morning News)

Dallas Morning News reporter Katharina Marino covered the research of Anthony Fiorillo, who is Perot Museum Curator of Earth Sciences at the new Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Victory Park. Fiorillo is also an adjunct research professor of paleoecology in SMU's Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences.

Margaret Allen 2020-02-18T11:48:00-06:00 January 3, 2013|Categories: Earth & Climate, Fossils & Ruins, Plants & Animals, Researcher news, SMU In The News|Tags: Anthony Fiorillo, Dedman College, Michael J. Polcyn, Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences|

SMU contributes fossils, expertise to new Perot Museum in ongoing scientific collaboration

From dinosaurs to sea turtles, and from technical assistance to advisory roles, SMU faculty and students, the SMU Shuler Museum, and the SMU Innovation Gymnasium, team with the nation's new premier museum of nature and science. Fossils on loan by SMU to the new Perot Museum of Nature and Science include those of animals from an ancient sea that once covered Dallas.