The Dinosaur Hunters of history - a podcast by RNZ

The word "dinosaur" has only been around for a couple of hundred years, but people have been finding the fossilised remains of prehistoric animals for more than a thousand years. Dr Lowell Dingus' book The Dinosaur Hunters tells the stories of the remarkable men and women who have dedicated their lives to uncovering the bones of these ancient reptiles. It sweeps centuries, from the ancient Chinese who assumed the bones of dinosaurs must have once belonged to dragons, to the modern dinosaur hunters who have discovered things we assumed we would never be able to learn about dinosaurs. Dr Dingus also delves into the the infamous "Bone Wars", where two American dinosaur hunters competed to find more fossils than the other, even to the point of sabotaging each others' dig sites with dynamite.

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