Question: why did you want to be a palaeontologist

Hannah Gow answered on 2 Dec 2025:

Hi 😊 When I was 11 years old I watched the first Jurassic Park movie at the cinema. I was both petrified and mesmerised by the dinosaurs 🦖 After that I wanted to know everything about dinosaurs, I collected a magazine that you got one piece of a plastic glow in the dark skeleton every week and I wanted the whole set 😂 So I decided that I would study dinosaur bones for a living. It did not quite work out that way but I did get to work with fossils, although much smaller ones like ammonites and crinoids 🐚