Dean Lomax

The museum must have been pleased.

Oh, they were so incredibly pleased.

Yeah.

And we got some really great PR too.

One of the headlines was something like Jaws in Doncaster.

Yeah.

Because of the sharks.

Yeah, all these remains are already fossils under the feet of dinosaurs.

So they're roughly about 310 million years old.

The dinosaurs are still another good chunk of time to come.

Yeah, and this was through two colleagues there who I'd kind of been in contact with through various different projects.

And they basically said, look, you've been doing some exceptional work.

We can look at getting you affiliated with the University of Manchester.

So they got me involved there.

And right off the bat, they said, there's also the prospect of doing a master's degree without having done an undergrad.

And they said, it's quite rare, but we're willing to support you.

And so I ended up doing a master's in paleontology and then subsequently did my PhD without ever doing an undergraduate degree.

She did, yeah.

And I always find it tough to talk about mum as well.

She was an incredible person.