In Recess
Jul. 20, 2018
The Intrepid Fossil Hunter
Litigator Paul Lipman’s search for fossils has turned up a unique discovery named after him.
Litigator Paul Lipman's careful searches for fossils yielded an ancient find in Simi Valley four years ago, a small carnivorous sea snail that was dubbed Ravniella lipmanorum after a professor asked him what to call it.
PASADENA — Litigator Paul Lipman picked up an unlikely hobby at a bachelor party.
“[It] was not the usual bachelor party,” Lipman said with a laugh. “We were playing paintball up in Newhall, and while I was down on the ground aiming my paintball gun, I literally came right up against a fossil in the dust, and I thought that was so cool.”
From that point on, Lipman was hooked.
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