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Emily Bamforth’s life-long obsession with dinosaurs started when she was just four years old.

Her family lived in the United Kingdom at the time, and her parents took her to see an exhibit about Mongolian and Chinese dinosaurs in Cardiff, Wales.

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“There was one dinosaur called a mamenchisaurus, which is one of the long-necked dinosaurs, and I remember seeing that. I don’t know what it was, but (I was) captivated by this enormous skeleton,” Bamforth said.

“From that moment on, I was dinosaur crazy.”

Two years later, her family moved to Edmonton, which is surrounded by what she called the “dinosaur hotspots” of Canada. This gave her a chance to spend plenty of time in Drumheller and Dinosaur Provincial Park.

With her parents and grandparents encouraging her passion, Bamforth grew up on dinosaur books and models, describing herself as a “dinosaur geek.”

“All the time I was a kid and teenager, I was all about dinosaurs … It’s really been a lifetime passion. I’ve never really wanted to be anything else other than a paleontologist,” the now 35-year-old said.