Real Life Characters–Kris Howe

As I’ve said before, a few of my characters from THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON are based on real people. One character in the book, Chris, is based after my friend Kris Howe. Kris is an amateur paleontologist or fossil hunter. Kris is also kind of famous. Searching over around Lake Grapevine he found the remains of the oldest known bird in North America, almost 95 million years old. And, it was a new species at that, Flexomornis howei. With that kind of notoriety, it was a given that it should go into the new Perot Museum of Nature and Science. The announcement even made it to one of the giant TVs at Times Square!

 

KERA – Fossil Hunter, And His 95-Million-Year-Old Bird, Land At New Perot Museum

Texas Fossils - The Oldest Bird in North America

Perot Museum of Nature and Science