LiveScience.com – From the moment we saw it, we knew the place held many great
secrets. We had been looking for new fossil sites on the south side of
the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 1992 with our colleagues, Helen F.
James and Storrs L. Olson of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,
D.C., along with their children, Travis and Sydney, and our own, Mara
and Alec.