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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What did you make of that process?
All scientists have to publish their research in journals.
That's something we have to do.
But you hadn't particularly enjoyed school.
So was this sort of academic work more fun for you?
And the cherry on the icing of this remarkable story is that this fossil turned out to be a previously unknown species of ichthyosaur.
So a few years later, you actually got to name it.
So there you were, volunteering at the museum, your first publication under your belt, and you decided the next logical step was to write a book.
Fossils of the Whitby Coast was published in 2011.
How did that happen?
I mean, look, let's take stock then, Dean Lomax, because, as you say, you're just 21, already a published author, but with no formal qualifications and still volunteering at the local museum.
I mean, you still had to earn a living.
That's it, yeah.
But you obviously had a real belief in yourself and where you wanted to go.
But it was clearly a hard slog.
Did you ever get disheartened?
Well, Dean, not long after your first book was published, you made another astonishing find.
Your life story is about lots of astonishing finds.
This was an important carboniferous fossil site in your hometown.
Carboniferous period, we're talking about, and this is long before the age of dinosaurs, over 300 million years ago, right?
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