662 - DR DEAN LOMAX - Britain’s TOP Dinosaur Expert Reveals Insane Prehistoric Secrets! (2 Hour Special)
Obviously, there are paid positions, as you might be a curator, a lecturer, professor, or you might be paid to go and dig up dinosaurs in America or wherever it might be, a paid field paleontologist.
662 - DR DEAN LOMAX - Britain’s TOP Dinosaur Expert Reveals Insane Prehistoric Secrets! (2 Hour Special)
it's very competitive and yeah sometimes you've got to be applying for funding and it's terrible that you end up applying for funding against some of your friends and colleagues and if you're lucky and you get it you're like well I know he didn't get it or she didn't get it which is bad at the same time so it really does vary
662 - DR DEAN LOMAX - Britain’s TOP Dinosaur Expert Reveals Insane Prehistoric Secrets! (2 Hour Special)
And so some places, if you found something and you own the land or whatever, or you've got access and you've been given permission, technically, if you found it, you could sell it.
662 - DR DEAN LOMAX - Britain’s TOP Dinosaur Expert Reveals Insane Prehistoric Secrets! (2 Hour Special)
Now, the ideal thing is if you found something new to science or something that's really rare, you donate it, or to a point you might get a paid donation.
662 - DR DEAN LOMAX - Britain’s TOP Dinosaur Expert Reveals Insane Prehistoric Secrets! (2 Hour Special)
But sometimes out with museums, the incentive of universities is that if you go on a cool expedition and you find something amazing, it's hopefully going to be brilliant and it's going to draw lots of interest for the university, for the museum, but also get lots of great PR and things, which is what's happened with some of my work.