I always wanted to find a dinosaur. This was a childhood dream, and Nathan Myhrvold actually funded Jack Horner to search for, I guess, for dinosaurs up in Hell Creek. And I went up to visit him with Nathan and I got to see some of the dinosaurs they were finding and sort of see how they found it in the rock. So I asked Jack if there were any areas where they hadn't looked yet. He said, 'Yes, but they're far away from the camp, and...' And I said, 'Okay, well, I want to go find one.' And he's like, 'Well, you know, it takes a lot of practice to find a dinosaur.' And I was like, 'No, I really want to find one.'

So I hiked out every day to these remote areas. I would find little chips of things and so on, but nothing much, and then I went way, way out one day, and I found a lot of dinosaur bones, like clearly a whole dinosaur. I was very excited, and I went back to Jack, and I was like, 'Hey, I found a dinosaur.' And he said, 'Oh, a lot of people think they find dinosaurs. It's usually just a cow or something like that.' And I was like, 'No, this is a real dinosaur.' He's like, 'Yes, well, it's really far away. I don't want to go out there to find a cow. It'll take us the whole day.' I was like, 'No, come on, you have to come.' So I finally convinced him to go out and hike with me and we went out there and we find it, and Jack says, 'Oh yes, this is a Triceratops. You actually found a Triceratops. That's pretty good.' He says, 'Since I'm the State Palaeontologist of Montana, I get to name every find. And since you found it, I'm going to name it Beginner's Luck.' So that kind of annoyed me. So I went back in and I searched until I found another dinosaur. So I found two Triceratopses. But then, actually years later, I ran into Jack and I said, 'You know, it always sort of bugged me that you named that Beginner's Luck.' And he said, 'Oh – he said – yes, that dinosaur. You know, there's a graduate student out working on that dinosaur.' He said, 'Unfortunately, it turned out Beginner's Luck was... that name was already taken, so we called it: The Hillis Claim.' He'd just been pulling my leg the whole time.