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Dean Lomax

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
290 total appearances

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The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

We've even had direct evidence from some of them where you have their last meals preserved of, say, fish and squid.

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

But there's a few that have marine reptiles preserved in their stomach and hatchling turtles.

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

And one of them even contained a bird.

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

Goodness me.

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

They were, yeah.

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

My mum and my dad were really supportive.

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

I have an older brother and sister, Scott and Julie.

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

And at a point during my, I guess, early teen years or a little bit before that, my parents split up.

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

And so I lived in a one-parent household for a number of years where...

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

We'd struggle to pay the rent, but Mum always did her best to provide for us.

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

And she made sure that we had a wonderful, wonderful childhood.

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

But yeah, growing up in Balby in Doncaster was quite difficult as well.

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

It was quite a tough environment.

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

It's certainly one of the most socioeconomically deprived areas in the UK and especially where I grew up.

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

To be blunt, it was a very rough area to grow up in, to the point, Jim, where even if you were walking to school or walking back from school, there'd always be a little bit of a fear that you might get jumped or something like that walking to school.

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

And it was literally like that.

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

There were occasionally people turning up in school with knives and things like that.

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

So it was quite difficult.

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

I always say like I had a good close knit community of friends.

The Life Scientific
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers

But yeah, there was always that in the back of your mind.