Geologist Edmonds and amateur fossil hunter Kevan Sheehan with «The Dorset Pliosaur» skull Sheehan found. (discovermagazine.com)
Ibrahim (right, with colleagues in Morocco) used his native Arabic skills to persuade local amateur fossil hunters to take him to promising excavation sites rather than have them bring their finds to him. (discovermagazine.com)
So it seemed fortuitous when, 5 years later, Charles Dawson, a professional lawyer and amateur fossil hunter in Sussex, U.K. (now East Sussex, U.K.), wrote to his friend, paleontologist Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, announcing that he had uncovered a «thick portion of a human -LRB-?) (sciencemag.org)