Fossil Hunter Harley Garbani Dies
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
(Photo: Don Bartletti, Los Angeles Times / May 10, 2007)
Harley Garbani, a self-taught paleontologist who found many of the prized dinosaur bones at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, died on April 21 at the age of 88. He is pictured above in 2007 holding a replica of the Tyrannosaurus Rex skull he found in Montana; the original will be on display in the new Dinosaur Halls. Read more about Garbani’s passion for hunting fossils and his unique finds in the Los Angeles Times obituary.

