title: Dick Mol. 'Sir Mammoth' leads charge to uncover Ice Age fossils.
abstract: Dick Mol may be an amateur, but he's had more success than most professionals in his chosen field of paleontology. As scientific coordinator of a major expedition that's gathering the remains of woolly mammoths and other Pleistocene fauna from Siberia's Taimyr Peninsula, this 45-year-old customs officer at Amsterdam airport has been featured in a documentary on the Discovery Channel and in a sequel to appear next March. The work has brought him international recognition for his studies on quaternary paleontology, the study of the Pleistocene and today's Holocene Epochs.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stone
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004606:Elephants; D005580:Fossils; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009426:Netherlands; D010163:Paleontology / Q000266:history; D012926:Social Control, Formal