Join The Explorers Club on February 25th for the world premiere screening of From Fossils to Flesh, featuring Explorer Club Members Gary Staab, Dr. Kenneth Lacovara, and filmmaker Trevor Hawkins.

MAMMOTH presents From Fossils to Flesh, a quirky and inspiring 40-minute film that follows paleoartist Gary Staab across a five-year journey as he and his team bring more than sixty extinct dinosaurs and creatures back to life as full-scale sculptures for the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum.

As these prehistoric beasts roar into reality, the museum’s founder and world-renowned paleontologist Dr. Kenneth Lacovara, MED’03 uses the deep past as a lens to look forward, exploring extinction, hope, and the urgent realities sculpting our shared future.

Told through the unique perspective of filmmaker Trevor Hawkins, the film feels less like traditional science programming and more like a skateboard video… fast, loose, human, and always fun.

Click here to watch the trailer.

This in-person screening at the Explorers Club Headquarters will include an audience Q&A.

RESERVATIONS

This will be an in-person lecture at Explorers Club Headquarters.

In-person tickets are $20 for Members, and $35 for the General Public.

Check-in will begin at 6:00 pm, with a beer and wine reception from 6:00 – 7:00 pm

Speakers

Gary Staab

Gary Staab is a world-renowned paleoartist and sculptor whose work has been exhibited in over 50 museums worldwide, from Turkey and South Korea to China, France, and Japan. A former staff sculptor at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, he has worked as a freelance artist since 1996 for clients including the National Geographic Society, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Discover Magazine, the BBC, Eyewitness Books, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. In 2016, he was featured in the PBS NOVA documentary Iceman Reborn for his replica of the 5,300-year-old mummy Ötzi the Iceman. Staab is a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society and The Explorers Club, and a five-time recipient of the Vertebrate Paleontology Award for Excellence in Paleontological Art.

Ken Lacovara

Dr. Kenneth Lacovara has unearthed some of the largest dinosaurs ever to walk the earth, including the massive 65-ton Dreadnoughtus, which appeared in the recent film Jurassic World: Dominion. He is a recipient of The Explorers Club Medal, the highest honor in exploration, previously awarded to pioneers such as Sir Edmund Hillary, Jane Goodall, and Neil Armstrong. His TED talk has been viewed by over six million people, and his book, Why Dinosaurs Matter, published by Simon & Schuster, is a winner of the Nautilus Book Prize. Lacovara’s discoveries have landed him three times in Discover magazine’s 100 Top Science Stories of the Year, and he has appeared in over 20 television documentaries. He founded the Green Jobs Academy, which helps workers retool for careers in green energy and other sustainable fields. He is founding former dean of the School of Earth & Environment at Rowan University and is founding executive director of the new Edelman Fossil Park & Museum, named a Top 10 Best New Museum, by USA Today. Since 2022, he has served on the board of Colossal Biotechnology, a CRISPR-based company endeavoring to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other recently extinct species.

Trevor Hawkins

For over 20 years, Emmy-winning filmmaker Trevor Hawkins has been creating films for clients including National Geographic, ESPN, Red Bull, Ford, AMC Theatres, the Smithsonian, Outdoor Channel, the Government of Rwanda, and the City of Barcelona. He wore many hats on his feature film debut Lotawana, including writer, director, producer, cinematographer, and editor. The critically acclaimed film has held a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Hawkins founded his production company MAMMOTH in 2010 and is a lifelong resident of Lake Lotawana, Missouri, where he can be found sailing, skateboarding, wakeboarding, rehabilitating wildlife, working on his cabin, and “gettin’ wet ’n wild with the other lake rats.”