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Fossil Hunter

Millions of years later, a sentient species called the Jijaki evolved from a transplanted population of Opabinia.



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Andrewsarchus

Andrewsarchus is named for the famous explorer and fossil hunter Roy Chapman Andrews.

Baryonyx

In January 1983, an amateur fossil hunter named William Walker came across an enormous claw sticking out of the side of a clay pit - Smokejacks Pit at Wallis Wood, Ockley near Dorking in Surrey (United Kingdom).

Kenney Krysko

He is an avid fossil hunter, and enjoys trying to find Megalodon teeth.

Manuel Iturralde-Vinent

In the field of paleontology has been a prominent fossil hunter who shed light on Jurassic of Cuba with Argentinian researchers, especially Zulma Brandoni Gasparini, revising the taxonomy of Cuban species of marine reptiles and dinosaur.

Oxford, New York

Barnum Brown, legendary fossil hunter, buried in Oxford, the home of his first wife.

Shelley Emling

Shelley is the author of two books: Your Guide to Retiring in Mexico, and most recently, The Fossil Hunter, published by Macmillan in 2009 about paleontologist Mary Anning, whom Shelley had learned of while on a holiday in England.

Simocetus

Simocetus is known from a single fossil, a skull, found in marine siltstone deposits of the Alsea Formation on the banks of Oregon's Yaquina River in 1977 by fossil hunter of the region, Douglas Emlong.