Monique Keiran is a journalist, author, and editor with a lifelong interest in the environment and science. She has worked at the Royal Tyrrell Museum and other museums across North America and held editorial positions with the Entomological Society of British Columbia and Engineers and Geoscientists BC. She lives on Vancouver Island, where few dinosaur bones but many amazing fossils of plants, fish, marine reptiles, and other extinct sea critters have been found.