When he was working on the Bighorn project, another team asked Schein to cover up this exposed blue tarp to avoid drawing attention to the abandoned dig site. As they were checking out the site, Schein and his crew were surprised to see dinosaur bone fragments just sitting on the surface. | Brittany Malinowski
Nearly every kid goes through a dinosaur phase — paleontologists just never grow out of it. Jason Schein is the New Jersey State Museum’s assistant curator of natural history. At 37, Schein has a list of notable achievements. He helped excavate what’s thought to be the largest titanosaur — the last long-necked, plant-eating sauropod dinosaur group — discovered in southern Patagonia. He also helped unite two fossil fragments from the same prehistoric sea turtle found in different sites.
Since 2010, Schein has led the Bighorn Basin Dinosaur Project expeditions to study the dinosaurs and ecosystems of ...
