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U@live Professor Leo Tan: You Live Your Belief
An evening with one of Singapore's stalwarts of natural history and conservation.
- you-live-your-belief - EventAbout the Talk Join us in April to meet a relentless champion for the environment and science to hear about his beliefs and values! Throu...
- Here's some background information on Professor Leo Tan, and his many invaluable contributions to nature conservation and natural history in Singapore:
- you-live-your-belief - SpeakerProfessor Leo Tan graduated in PhD in Science from NUS in 1974. Throughout a distinguished career in research, education and public servi...
wild shores of singapore: Prof Leo Tan on our shores and bringing science to the massesProf Leo Tan is a great inspiration. A veteran in raising awareness and protection for our shores, his relentless work for Labrador shore...
wildsingapore news: Singapore honours green warriorsTania Tan, Straits Times 7 Dec 07; Tania Tan speaks to the three winners of the 2007 President's Award for the Environment, who will rece...- wildsingapore news: Prof Leo Tan on Bringing science to the massesUnderstanding science will help people realise its impact on their lives Leo W.H. Tan, Straits Times 13 Sep 08; I TAUGHT biology when I b...
- wildsingapore news: Prof Leo Tan: Nature lover returns to his rootsLeo Tan hopes to work on marine biology in his post as NUS special projects director Tania Tan, Straits Times 15 Nov 08; PROFESSOR Leo Ta...
- Here are my tweets from the U@live session. At the moment, you can also search for them on Twitter using the hashtag #UaliveLeoTan
On my way to Shaw Foundation Alumni House to attend the U@live session with Professor Leo Tan! bit.ly/I15nEW #UaliveLeoTan- Other friends passionate about nature and conservation, including Ria Tan, Toh Chay Hoon, N. Sivasothi, Heng Pei Yan, Jocelyne Sze, and Amanda Tan, were also in the audience.
- Waiting for the U@live session with Prof Leo Tan to begin twitpic.com/9do2e6 #UaliveLeoTan
- If you're not here, you can catch the live webcast of the U@live session and join the discussion here bit.ly/I15nEW #UaliveLeoTan
- Earlier in the day, we had received news that Twinky, one of three diplodocid sauropod dinosaur skeletons destined for our upcoming natural history museum, had finally arrived in Singapore.
Welcome, Twinky!Twinky, our baby is featured in the English and Mandarin press today. After a long sea journey, he arrived safe and sound in Sunny Singap...- There weren't any sauropods at the U@live session, but to help stimulate the audience's interest and curiosity, there were 2 sets of dinosaur fossils on stage, and we were invited to take photos and even (gently) touch them.
- While waiting for the talk, there are a couple of dinosaur fossils on stage. An Edmontosaurus femur twitpic.com/9do40u #UaliveLeoTan
- Edmontosaurus (also known in the past by names such as Trachodon, Anatosaurus, Anatotitan, and many others) is one of the largest and most famous of the hadrosaurs (aka "duck-billed" dinosaurs), and is represented by numerous fossil specimens discovered in the Late Cretaceous of the United States of America and Canada.
Edmontosaurus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEdmontosaurus included some of the largest hadrosaurid species, measuring up to 13 meters (43 ft) long and weighing around 4.0 metric ton...- The other fossil on stage is the foot of what I believe is Triceratops #UaliveLeoTan twitpic.com/9do5oy
- Professor Leo Tan later confirmed during the session that it was a Triceratops foot.
Triceratops needs very little introduction; it is easily one of the most recognisable dinosaurs. Also represented by numerous fossils, the abundance of specimens suggest that this largest of all ceratopsians (aka horned dinosaurs) was the most common large herbivore in many areas of North America at the end of the Cretaceous period.
