Earlier this year in January, James Haggardorn got a phone call.

So I was at my oldest daughter's parent-teacher conferences, and that's not an event that I would normally ever answer my phone in.

But Bob Reynolds, who was the geologist on the site, you know, called me.

James is a geologist, too. He's actually the geology curator at the Denver Museum of Nature and

Science. And this phone call had to do with the fact that the museum had been doing some

construction work in their parking lot. And they said that they would give James a call if they

turned up anything weird.

Bob just blurted it out.

He said, we found a dinosaur boat.

And I said, what did you say?

So pretty incredible.

And Bob Reynolds is an incredible geologist.

So, you know, this is like someone on the Jedi High Council calling you and saying,

there's been a disturbance in the force.

You know, it isn't likely to be a false alarm.

It is pretty funny that a museum with probably thousands and thousands of fossils in its collection dug up its parking lot and found more fossils.

And I was curious about this. I wanted to know more.

So I reached out to the museum and to James.

And then something in his bio caught my attention.

He had this very interesting way of describing his work as a geologist.

He calls himself a detective in deep time.

So if you think about a detective, they're using clues from a crime scene to recreate an

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