 So when I was a kid, I was really, really into dinosaurs. At the time, I didn't really know that I could become a paleontologist and be able to do this for a living, to go out and find ancient things in the rocks and be able to give them new names and describe them and tell the world about fossils. What I really love the most about my job is the thrill of discovery. I've named three new species of fossils that had previously not been described. Fossils that are half a billion years old from Newfoundland. You have to be able to look at a fossil in the ground and imagine that in the real world. That creativity piece is so critical to what we do. Paleontology is the study of ancient life through fossils. So that includes dinosaurs, but it also includes all of the other ancient life as well. My name is Emily Bamforth. I am a paleontologist in East End, Saskatchewan.