Dr. Dean Lomax

To get there was, you have to either hike 10, 12 hours.

It's a horseback ride for like five hours.

And yeah.

on that that just side tangent to this i will get to the answer but side tangent to it that was the first time for me being on a horse and uh it was a really bad decision i was on that for five hours never been on a horse at all so i was yeah it wasn't bruised ass yeah you're not walking after that i was not walking i wasn't very good on the site then after that like hey dean can you come help i'm like yeah give me five minutes

But whilst on that trip, one of the most amazing kind of like craziest things I'd seen was we were out there kind of looking for more ichthyosaurs.

That's what we were hunting for.

And it's the typical thing that on the last day, it's like a written rule in paleontology that you end up finding like one of the coolest bloody things.

And I went...

As you do, went for a pee, kind of just said, oh yeah, to the rest of the team, I'm going to wander down there and just still look and went for a pee, as you do.

And then turned around and was like, holy shit, staring at me was this beautifully preserved ichthyosaur, but a small one, only about 70, 80 centimeters long.

That's the most complete skeleton of a juvenile ichthyosaur ever found in South America.

I found that whilst taking a wit's test.

So that was honestly one of the most mind-blowing things.

And I remember, I'm not going to do it now, but I did a little dance as well.

I was like, yes!

I was so excited finding that.

You didn't even have to dig or anything.

It was just there.

Yeah, just in the bedrock.

And then I shouted over the team and they were like, oh my God.