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When huge hyaenas hunted big game across Yorkshire

Patrick Boylan

Image © York Museums Trust; YORYM_G1201

  • 26 Septmeber 2014
    6.30pm - 7.30pm

  • Yorkshire Museum
    Tempest Anderson Hall (map)

  • FREE admission
    No booking required

  • Wheelchair accessible

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The 1821 recognition by Professor William Buckland of the world's first fossil hyaena den in Kirkdale Cave, near Kirby Moorside, was a sensation around the scientific world. Since then many others have been identified in other parts of the world, as well as elsewhere in Yorkshire, all directly comparable with what Professor Adam Sedgwick named "our Yorkshire Hyaenopolis".

Professor Patrick Boylan of City University London, is President of the Yorkshire Geological Society, and Kirkdale Cave and similar Pleistocene sites elsewhere have been one of his major research interests for over 40 years. Come to hear more about his fascinating research!