I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.
Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.
In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded.
I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.
As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.
One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered.