“The president asked what would happen if it didn’t work. I told him, ‘Then you will be the first president who ever claimed a dinosaur.'” (Image: Mareike Günsche)
You were trained in public policy. What got you interested in dinosaurs?
In 2006 I was driving in the Mongolian countryside with my family. I stopped to take a photograph of camels in the sunshine, and talked with tourists who were also taking pictures. One was from the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York and he invited us to come for a back-room tour.
A few months later …
