His love of paleontology began at age 11 when he made his first trips to abandoned coal mines in his home state of Kentucky to collect plant fossils. In 1994, he made his first website: a catalog of his growing fossil collection that was hosted on the now defunct GeoCities service. He’s been a lifelong lover of science, journalism and software development. He is also the Founder of natural history news site Earth Archives and curated science news site Science Actually.