Spencer Lucas

Spencer Lucas is a palaeontologist and was a champion chess player from mainly the 1980's and 1990's, but is still finding information about prehistoric creatures. He found the dinosaur Ziapelta alongside 5 other people in 2014. He has also written a few books on palaeontology and animals.

Chess
Spencer was a very talented chess player in the early 1970's and he was the New Mexico state champion in 1973 and 1974. However, a few years later, he gave up chess for his academic career.

Palaeontology
In the mid 1970's, Spencer started learning palaeontology. In the 1980's and 90's, that became his profession and has also co- edited fourteen books. He is also the curator of palaeontology at the New Mexico Mueseum of Natural History and Science.