11. In cooperation with the quarry owner, the scientists are keeping the exact location of the find secret to discourage looters and fossil hunters. 12. Inexperienced fossil hunters often go out looking for full skeletons, laid out nicely as if the animal had lain down for a nap and died. 13. It is further evidence that the dinosaur found six months ago by a pair of amateur fossil hunters is likely a new species of the long-extinct creatures. 14. Mrs. Leakey is an experienced fossil hunter and the wife of Richard Leakey, a son of Mary Leakey and the late Louis Leakey -- paleontologists all. 15. Rob Clack, though a computer programmer by trade, is at heart a fossil hunter. 16. Steve Nicklas, an archaeologist and fossil hunter, is cleaning the Edmontosaurus skeleton at Elachee Nature Science Center in Gainesville. 17. Still, many scientists are concerned that these amateur fossil hunters may be destroying valuable scientific evidence with their rudimentary picks and shovels. 18. The excitement surrounding the discoveries, the pride and enthusiasm of the discoverers and the outrage of competing fossil hunters can all be found in the reportage. 19. The search for a species ancestral to A. afarensis has been a central goal of fossil hunters. 20. The turtle fossil was originally discovered by Tom Lindgren, a fossil hunter and dealer from Utah, who sold it years ago. |