Although secondary students with passions for dinosaur hunting often consider careers in paleontology, many do not know about the necessary training.

A half-century after Miss Anning founded the commercial fossil industry, dinosaur hunting for glory and profit became a high-stakes game in which scholarship usually took a back seat to posturing and competition.

Come go dinosaur hunting with me again.

Peter L. Larsen, a commercial fossil dealer accused of dinosaur hunting without a Federal permit, left his South Dakota home yesterday to surrender to Federal authorities and begin serving a two-year prison term.

Many More Dinosaurs Still to Be Found The last few decades have been a golden era of dinosaur hunting.

I can feel a case of dinosaur hunting about to emerge.

If the movie promotes a national interest in dinosaur hunting, there will also be an increased need to protect fossils, said Peter Robinson, a professor of natural sciences at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

But during the "golden age" of dinosaur hunting in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, America's leading museums were beneficiaries of an immense trove of fossils gathered not only by professional scientists but by a legion of destructive and self-interested amateurs.

The story of that discovery near Choteau, Mont., illustrates the role of luck in dinosaur hunting.

The Raja and I have worked out a system for dinosaur hunting.