It is reported that 30-year-old Jack Boyland has been searching for fossils since he was a preteen growing up in New Jersey. He has been a member of the Delaware Valley Paleontological Society in Philadelphia. Boyland has also shared some of the relics he has found with a scientist at Columbia University.
In a media interview in 2019, Boyland shared that he has a tad of Native American blood, and that “fossil hunting is kind of like connecting with my heritage in a way.”