When looking for a reputable fossil company it's very important to know who your are dealing with. There are a lot of cut throats and pirates in this business. Too many folks who lie, cheat, steal or worse. If you'd like to know more about who WE are and what we stand for please click the links below:

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Our Story.

Walter and his wife Heather started “PaleoAdventures” back in 2005. PaleoAdventures provides a wide range of services to the education, museum, and tourist related industries, including: Dig site tours, commercial internet fossil sales, lectures and educational programs for schools, clubs and museums, museum consultation, contract fossil preparation, paleontological resource assessments, and much, much more.   

Walter is a professional vertebrate paleontologist and dinosaur hunter who has discovered, excavated, or prepared over 30 dinosaur skeletons and numerous isolated fossils over the last 25 years. One of Walter’s most famous discoveries is the skeleton of “Sir William” a juvenile Tyrannosaur skeleton collected in Petroleum County, Montana. Sir William is named after Walter and Heather’s young son William. Walter is a graduate of Appalachian State University (BS Geology, 1994), is former president of the Big Horn Basin Foundation, Staff Geologist/paleotechnician at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center, Field Collections Manager for Triebold Paleontology Inc. and Curator for the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center. He is also the author of the book, “So You Want To Dig Dinosaurs; A Field Manual on the Practice, Principles, and Politics of Vertebrate Paleontology, published back in 2002  and"The Top 256 Rules of Paleontology" published in 2009”.

Heather has been a nationally certified massage therapist since 1997. She is a graduate of  Suncoast School of Natural Health(1997), Tampa, Florida. She has worked at some of the finest hotels and resorts in the country including the 5 star/5 diamond Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs and  Saddlebrook Resort & Spa in Florida. She has been trusted to work on many celebrities, and professional sports figures during her career. For the last fifteen years, Heather has been an intergral part of the dinosaur business, working in both the field and the lab.

They married in 2002 and have two boys William and Stephen.

Mission
Statement.

We strongly believe that commercial paleontology, if executed properly, can be both valid and beneficial to the study of ancient life. We intend to prove that one can be involved in a commercial paleontology business and still meticulously collect the necessary scientific data and distribute that information to all interested parties. We intend to work with any and all individuals interested in the cause of preserving our fossil resources for future generations. It is our duty, our career, and our love.

We believe that only through education, these principles can be advanced to our society. We therefore, intend to spend a great deal of our time educating the public, through all avenues, about our wonderful fossil resources, their care and their meaning.

Our goal is to become a beacon for all others in our field to follow. A model that is both profitable, and cost effective, and still holds true to the tenants of science and education.

Our OPERATING PRINCIPLES and SPECIMEN GUARANTEE

We guarantee that all of our specimens have been personally collected and, when warranted, scientifically documented, prior to being placed into the for sale market. All of our specimens are legally and ethically collected from private land only. NOTHING IS EVER REMOVED FROM PUBLIC LANDS. We believe that anyone in the field of commercial paleontology who knowingly removes specimens from public land without a permit is a disgrace to the field of paleontology. These headhunters cause more harm then good and give people who are conscientious and caring a bad name which we must constantly try to overcome.

We believe that ethical commercial paleontology requires the respect of science, the respect of the specimens, the respect of the land, the land owners and their rights, and the cooperation and commitment of like minded individuals to advance our common knowledge.

Our main goal is to find relatively complete or partial dinosaur skeletons that can find a good home in a proper U.S. museum for research and study. Dinosaurs are like dogs... they need good homes with caring parents. We will make every attempt to place any scientifically significant, PaleoAdventures specimen in a reputable museum preferably in the Western United States. Only specimens that have been deemed of little scientific interest (isolated, poorly preserved, common elements, or common genera), will be marketed to private collectors, hobbyists, educators, or tourists. Exploring for dinosaurs should never be about the money. A T. rex (or its neighbors) is NOT a lottery ticket! A T. rex is a valuable piece to the puzzle of ancient life and needs to be treated as such.

Thanks and we look forward to working with you in the future