Dean Lomax

So I said, in America.

You know, American Midwest is kind of dinosaur country.

There's lots of dinosaurs found out there.

And so, long story short, I put together with the help of Mr. Bonacorsi a letter and just reached out to one of the places in America.

And as a result, I was offered a place to go and volunteer at a museum in America, the Wyoming Dinosaur Center, for almost four months.

And they did say, we'll put you up in what they had, like an intern volunteer house.

But I needed the money to get there.

So I ended up selling a bunch of my possessions.

And that included my beloved Star Wars collection and other things to fund that trip.

Yeah, that's exactly it.

So we were shown a whole load of different dig sites, and they took me to one where they'd been excavating, I think, for about a month or two before I was there.

And probably within the space of half an hour, I'd uncovered quite a large bone.

And so I had one of the other paleontologists come and take a look at it.

And we continued to excavate it over the coming days.

And it was a huge femur of a sauropod dinosaur, one of those long-necked, long-tailed dinosaurs, something like a Diplodocus.

And immediately for me, it's giving me goosebumps now thinking about that.

I remember having goosebumps back then and being like, wow, this is incredible.

It did, yeah.

So the local Doncaster Free Press covered my journey and that was my first introduction to public outreach and they were really supportive.

Fantastic.