Grande, Lance

Lance Grande has been doing paleontological fieldwork in the Fossil Butte Member of southwestern Wyoming for more than thirty years and is one of the world s foremost authorities on this amazing locality. He is also a curator at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, where he conducts research on fishes, paleontology, geology, and evolutionary biology. He is the award-winning author of more than one hundred books and scientific articles. His book "Gems and Gemstones: Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World" (2009), published by the University of Chicago Press, won the 2009 PROSE Aw...