Dr. Dean Lomax

Especially a field like paleontology, it's a fantastic field, but you've got to be sharing your passion with people.

so you get people like tweet you and stuff oh yeah yeah every time every time and and i've i've been in situations where professionally i have to be very careful obviously but i've been at a big event where i've again had hundreds of people come to an event of mine and someone's bought a ticket and they ask a question and you're like i know where they're going with it right and it's kind of like how do you really know it's that old and and didn't they all live at the same time and weren't they on you know a boat and i'm like

What kind of boat was that?

And it's like, okay, they're on the ark and all this, you know, it's that.

And you've got these kinds of questions and you have to be, especially when you're giving a talk and it's around like families and stuff, you have to be diplomatic about it.

But it is very hard.

I mean, I've generally had people be like, so Loch Ness Monster then, that's real, isn't it?

And then, again, you've got to be careful how you do it, but you're kind of like, well, obviously not.

It's not, and here's the reasons behind that.

As much as I'd love to say, yeah, it is.

So it's hard to deal with some of that.

Yeah, yeah.

So to use two really famous ones, so Stegosaurus, you know what Stegosaurus is, yeah, played a dinosaur, spikes on its tail.

That was already kind of was living and went extinct before T-Rex appeared and is actually, T-Rex is closer in time to us and an iPhone than it was to Stegosaurus.

That's mad, isn't it?

Ridiculous.

So Stegosaurus was living like 150, 155 million years.

T-Rex about 60, 68 million years ago.

How wild is that?

Yeah.