By MICHAEL TAYLOR Stan Wood is a professional fossil collector who also referees amateur football matches — a serendipitous combination as it turned out. (newscientist.com)
In 2003, a private fossil collector made a surprising discovery in a limestone quarry near Goslar in Lower Saxony: a total of 20 dinosaur footprints imprinted on a stone slab. (sciencedaily.com)
The daughter of a cabinetmaker and amateur fossil collector, Anning made her mark in the budding field of paleontology in early 19th - century England through the discovery of the first complete plesiosaur fossil (scientificamerican.com)