James Lamb

James Lamb (born in Birmingham) is a paleontologist and paleoecologist and curator of collections for the Black Belt Museum at the University of West Alabama in Livingston.

While a doctoral student at North Carolina State University, Lamb discovered an intact dinosaur embryo, probably a Lophorhothan, inside an egg found in Alabama by Prescott Atkinson and two other high school students in 1970. The egg became part of the collection of the Auburn University Natural History Learning Center where Lamb obtained it for research. After discovering the presence of embryonic bones in the egg in 2001, he contacted Atkinson, then an immunologist at Children’s Hospital, to have CT scans taken, which confirmed the discovery.

Lamb was on staff at the Red Mountain Museum and McWane Science Center before going to UWA.

References

• "Graduate student discovers intact embryo in dusty artifact dinosaur egg" (October 25, 2001) Farm and Dairy