For the last ten years, DePalma has focused his work on a fossil-rich site — which he has named “Tanis” — in North Dakota’s Hell Creek Formation. And since 2019, ...

With a collective 87 years of experience, the Tanis family, Irene, her son Joe and his wife, Stephanie are opening their own real estate company.

Tanis is on private land; DePalma holds the lease to the site and controls access to it. “This is not a case of ‘he said, she said.’ This is also not a case of stealing someone’s ideas.

Fatma Tanis is a correspondent covering global health and development for NPR. Tanis reports on U.S. foreign aid policy, the global humanitarian aid sector, as well as poverty and hunger, among ...