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Stan Wood

Fossil hunter;

Born: December 23, 1939; Died: September 9, 2012.

Stan Wood, who has died of cancer aged 72, was a real-life professional dinosaur-hunter, who revolutionised thinking about prehistoric animals when he discovered the fossilised remains of what many have surmised may be the world's earliest reptile.

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