1.   Stan Wood is the man and he can already claim a place of honour amongst the great fossil hunters of the world.

2.   And I knew instantly what wildlife enthusiasts, geologists and fossil hunters love about this area, just a short drive north of Barstow in the Mojave Desert.

3.   A fossil collector, he passed along his passion to his three sons, who became renowned fossil hunters themselves.

4.   A virtually complete skeleton sold by amateur fossil hunters to the Karlsruhe museum proved Carroll wrong, as he now concedes.

5.   A tour through the Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum offers an excellent view of the matters that concern fossil hunters when they are not digging in the field.

6.   After nearly two centuries of activity by amateur and professional fossil hunters, large dinosaur tracks are now hard to find in the Connecticut Valley outside of museums.

7.   Dangling a rock hammer behind her back, the fossil hunter slowly crisscrosses a vacant lot in suburban Fort Worth.

8.   Following a tip from another fossil hunter, Hollrah walked along the back expanses of a private ranch, his eyes toward the ground.

9.   Fossil hunters in Ethiopia think they have added a new branch to the human family tree.