Bob Makela dating history

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Some of Mr. Horner's dedicated associates have worked with him ever since his days at Princeton in the late 1970's. Among them is Robert Makela, a Rudyard, Mont., high school teacher who spends his summers hunting dinosaurs. It was Mr. Makela's discovery of some unusual duckbill dinosaur bones in the 1970's that led to a series of Horner expeditions culminating in the identification of the Maiasaur nests with their associated baby dinosaurs and fossilized eggs. Computerized axial tomography (CAT) images of some of these eggs revealed that they contained fossilized dinosaur embryos. But Mr. Makela's worth to the team extends far beyond his sharp eyes and knowledge of bones, which have placed his name next to that of Mr. Horner on several important scientific papers. Mr. Makela, a strong man who wears a dinosaur tooth hanging from a string around his neck, is a talented builder of improvised shelters, of hand carts for rolling large fossils down the sides of cliffs, and of makeshift shower baths. He is also the team's most highly regarded pancake chef.