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Dinosaur hunters are all over the world, hoping that they would find a dinosaur, but to find a dinosaur depends on luck and a bit of knowledge. The history has told that it could be anyone who discovers a dinosaur, in fact the farmers and railroad workers have found a very large number of dinosaurs through the times. But while the farmers and railroad workers find dinosaurs accidental, the dinosaur hunters hunt on a more scientific basis. That means, that there is a great chance of finding a dinosaur at a roadside cutting, quarries, sea cliff, riverbanks, and in coal mines. At badlands and deserts there is an even greater chance of finding a dinosaur, especially: Western North America, the Gobi Desert, Patagonia, and Sahara. If a professional dinosaur hunter finds a single, small bone on such places he would just pull it out of the ground, but if he has found a complete skeleton or more, he would contact a special team. This special team should get the bones out of the ground, but that can be a very long process. There are stories about excavations that were so large, that they after 60 years estimated that they only were half the way. It takes so long time because the skeletons are in a stone, so they actually have to hoe the skeleton out bit by bit.