"Perhaps the old fossil hunter will tell us his age?"

The scene is set for the story of a fossil hunter's comeback.

He quickly dispatched his own fossil hunters into the area.

Most of the fossil hunters out there are looking for small stuff.

"The romance of being a fossil hunter disappears about half an hour after you find something," he said.

Once before, in the 1980's, Ethiopia closed its borders to foreign fossil hunters.

We feel very strongly that the public should not have to buy back from commercial fossil hunters what it already owns.

The fossil hunters could perhaps be forgiven if they were confused.

Ethiopian fossil hunters made the discovery on the first day of their field season in November 1994.

We old fossil hunters know a little geology, too.