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'Walking Whales and Other Superheroes'

The first lecture in the annual Irving-Scholander Memorial Lecture Series will be Wednesday, Nov. 10, from 6-7 p.m. in the Murie Auditorium and online. 

“Walking Whales and Other Superheroes”

Speaker J.G.M. ‘Hans’ Thewissen, a professor at Northeast Ohio Medical University who discovered the first fossils that showed the oldest whales could walk on land, is the author of “The Walking Whales” and was a consultant for the movie “Aquaman.” 

The series is sponsored by 911����’s Institute of Arctic Biology and the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, and supported by private donations to the University of 911���� Foundation. For more information, email Lara Horstmann at lara.horstmann@alaska.edu.