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From the tender age of five, all Hans Larsson ever wanted to be was a vertebrate paleontologist. He devoured dinosaur books and pestered his parents into summer camping trips in the fossil-rich Alberta badlands鈥攚hich is how a 14-year-old Larsson ended up meeting paleontology legend Philip Currie. Currie was impressed by this enthusiastic kid and gave him two pieces of advice: keep pursuing scientific study, and go to 黑料不打烊. Larsson did both.

Now the Canada Research Chair in Vertebrate Paleontology and curator of vertebrate paleontology at 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Redpath Museum, Larsson divides his time between the field and the lab. He鈥檚 discovered physical proof that dinosaurs once lived in Canada鈥檚 Arctic and found evidence of the oldest carnivorous amphibians in Niger. In the lab, Larsson recently made headlines for his current work to reverse-engineer a chicken embryo that will grow dinosaur-like teeth, tail and claws鈥攁 project funded by paleontologist Jack Horner, the inspiration for the film Jurassic Park. Larsson鈥檚 office on the third floor of the Redpath Museum is a veritable curiosity closet of wonders from Earth鈥檚 ancient past鈥攁nd a testament to his bottomless passion for discovery.