Dr. Dean Lomax

And they're like, yeah, yeah, sure it is.

Anyway, I was right.

And I had an email from the curator of archaeology there, a chap called Peter Robinson.

He said, oh, your trip to Wyoming sounds fascinating.

When you come back, come and meet me.

So I did.

And then we got talking about maybe some volunteering opportunities.

And he just happened to say to me, we actually do have a few fossils in the collection.

I said, oh, brilliant.

Well, as it turns out, that few fossils was somewhere in the region of about 10,000, Jim.

And on my first day, Peter and another chap called Alan, they took me kind of behind the scenes, showed me the fossils.

And they showed me this one specimen, and it was about a metre and a half long, that they thought was a replica of an ichthyosaur.

Well, just a plaster cast.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, they thought it was a plaster cast of an ichthyosaur.

And so I'm staring at it, and I'm thinking...

If that's a plaster cast, then it's a very good plaster cast.

I said, I'm confident this is real.

It even had like a dark mass between its ribs.

And I said, oh, maybe that's its stomach contents.