How a self-taught fossil hunter made his biggest discovery
In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, this self-taught paleontologist has been looking for dinosaurs in creek beds and rivers for more than 30 years, and has become something of a legend...
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JOHN YANG: Now to our "NewsHour" Shares, something interesting that caught our eye. Ray Stanford has been looking for dinosaurs in creek beds and rivers for more than 30 years. Despite being a self-taught tracker, Stanford is something of a legend among paleontologists. As the "NewsHour"'s Pamela Kirkland reports, six years ago, he made his biggest discovery to date. RAY STANFORD, Paleontologist: There's part of a track down to the lower right, too. PAMELA KIRKLAND: When it comes to tracking dinosaurs, Ray Stanford is a natural. Stanford is a self-taught paleontologist known for his talent for finding dinosaur fossils from the Cretaceous era, 140 to 65 million years ago. In 2010, while visiting his wife, Sheila, an information s...
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JOHN YANG: Now to our "NewsHour" Shares, something interesting that caught our eye. Ray Stanford has been looking for dinosaurs in creek beds and rivers for more than 30 years. Despite being a self-taught tracker, Stanford is something of a legend among paleontologists. As the "NewsHour"'s Pamela Kirkland reports, six years ago, he made his biggest discovery to date. RAY STANFORD, Paleontologist: There's part of a track down to the lower right, too. PAMELA KIRKLAND: When it comes to tracking dinosaurs, Ray Stanford is a natural. Stanford is a self-taught paleontologist known for his talent for finding dinosaur fossils from the Cretaceous era, 140 to 65 million years ago. In 2010, while visiting his wife, Sheila, an information s...
