Sentences with phrase «amateur fossil hunter»

Geologist Edmonds and amateur fossil hunter Kevan Sheehan with «The Dorset Pliosaur» skull Sheehan found.

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.

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-?)

Such enthusiastic amateur fossil hunters play a crucial role in the palaeontological ecosystem.

The cause of their death is unclear, partly because amateur fossil hunters dug up the ground around the specimens before paleontologists arrived.

The 110 - million - year - old six - inch - wide ten - pound fossil of what appears to be a vertebral fragment, unearthed by amateur fossil hunters at Cedar Mountain, Utah, harbors the earliest known tumors ever recorded.

In 2012, an amateur fossil hunter found a slab of rock covered in ancient footprints on the campus of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, The Washington Post reports.

Tullimonstrum gregarium, informally dubbed the «Tully Monster» after the amateur fossil hunter who discovered the first specimens in 1958, is monstrous only in terms of its appearance (artist's concept above), with the largest individuals measuring in at about 15 centimeters long.

An amateur fossil hunter discovered the skeleton 50 years ago on the Isle of Skye, embedded in limestone harder than concrete.

«I started seeing the little holes in the bone that the blood vessels go through,» said Harpel, an amateur fossil hunter who made this discovery in 2012.

Scholars still debate the identity of the Piltdown cheat, although most agree it was an amateur fossil hunter, Charles Dawson.

Credit an amateur fossil hunter with locating one of the world's oldest and largest penguins in a discovery that changed the way scientists viewed the species» history.