Last week, Mike Taylor identified a new dinosaur called Brontomerus mcintoshi, a sauropod with uncommonly large, powerful thighs.

It is the second dinosaur he’s named in five years and his 13th paleontology publication.

That would be impressive though not unusual for a hard-working full-time paleontologist. But Mike Taylor is a 42-year-old British computer programmer who writes code for a living in a quaint English village called Ruardean.

Hunting for dinosaurs is just a hobby, albeit one he pursues seriously.

One day 10 years ago, while reading a paleontology paper on a long plane trip, he had an epiphany.

“I thought, well, blimey, I could do better than that,” he said. “And then I decided, why shouldn’t I? What’s stopping me?”