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Fossil Excavator & Paleontology Field Expert
About Richard Lyman
In the summer of 2019, Richard Lyman directed the excavation of a 72-million-year-old hadrosaur bonebed in Montana’s Two Medicine Formation, uncovering over 3,400 identifiable elements from 12 individuals, including the first known evidence of intra-species combat trauma preserved in juvenile skull sutures. He pioneered the use of real-time ground-penetrating radar calibration with drone-based photogrammetry to map fossil density gradients before trenching, reducing destructive sampling by 68% across three subsequent digs. His field journals, annotated with soil pH logs, pollen counts, and hand-drawn sediment grain diagrams, are archived at the University of Montana’s Paleoenvironmental Repository. Unlike lab-based specialists, Lyman insists on sleeping in the same tent as his crew during multi-week digs, not for camaraderie but to monitor subtle acoustic shifts in wind-borne sediment resonance that signal buried bone layers. He refuses CT scans unless specimens are already jacketed, 'X-rays lie when the matrix is still breathing.'
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