Professor Jim Al-Khalili
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first heard May 2026
last heard 15 Jun
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The Life Scientific · Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers · 26 May 2026
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But let's get back to you, Dean.
You were born in 1989 in Doncaster.
Tell me about your family.
I gather they were very supportive of your fascination with fossils.
So what was your experience growing up there?
Well, let's talk about your school days, because I mean, some people are going to find it hard to believe, given what you've achieved.
But academic life didn't come easy, did it?
Well, despite your dedication to fossils, Dean, you didn't get the GCSEs that you wanted, which meant you couldn't take the science subjects at A-level.
So in the summer of 2008, you travelled to America as an 18-year-old for a four-month dig with the Wyoming Dinosaur Centre.
And when you got to the dig site, right away, on day one, you struck lucky and found something.
And it even got some media interest for you, didn't it?
Well, once you got home from this summer adventure, you started volunteering at a museum in Doncaster.
It is quite remarkable, isn't it?
You're nothing more than a teenage enthusiast, right?
And you're telling these people at the museum, you have a real fossil here.
Incredible.
Well, at that point, Dean, you reached out to the experts you'd met at your Wyoming trip for advice on how to write this up as a scientific paper.
Yeah.
Well, by this point, you must have figured out that a scientific paper is not a newspaper.
And this was, in fact, published in 2010.
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