Roy Chapman Andrews

1. Roy Chapman Andrews Young life and job By Jabor Al-kuwari 6A Roy Chapman Andrews is a famous paleontologist born in January 26, 1884 in Beloit, Wisconsin and died in March 11, 1960. When he was a child he explored forests, fields and nearby water. In Beloit college he is a member of Sigma Chi. On March 31, 1905 he crashed his boat in the rock river. His friend Monty White died but he survived. After his graduation he used his taxidermy money to travel to New York. His job is a janitor in the taxidermy department with only 40 dollars a month. During the few years he studied and worked simultaneously earning a masters of degree in Columbia University.

2. Roy Chapman Andrews • Life as an archaelogist: He traveled to China in 1920. He told himself that he can explore places. He left Peking now Beijing with camels. By camels he traveled to places like erhlien, Altai mountains and Ulanbator. In the places he dug for animal bones. It took 3 years to explore Mongolia and parts of China. In 1923 an amazing thing happened, he found the fossil dinosaur eggs. In 1924 he left Mongolia because of bad weather.

3. Sources and Quote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Chapman_Andrews http://express.howstuffworks.com/ep-andrews.htm http://www.roychapmanandrewssociety.org/ Paleontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly succession the monarchs of the past and the ancient river streams and savannahs wherein they flourished. The rocks usually hide their story in the most difficult and inaccessible places.