found: Flock of dodos, 2006:closing credits (written & directed by Randy Olson)
found: IMDb, viewed Mar 1, 2007(Randy Olson; director, writer, producer)
found: University of Southern California WWW site, viewed Mar. 1, 2007:USC faculty profile (Randy Olson, lecturer; Ph. D., biology, Harvard, 1984; M.F.A., cinema, U.S.C., 1997; as a marine biologist, specializes in marine ecology of marine invertebrate larvae; as a filmmaker, wrote & directed documentary, Flock of dodos)
found: NewYork times WWW site, viewed Mar. 1, 2007:Eager to Tell the Stories of Science, a Biologist Evolves, publ. Apr. 11, 2006 (Randy Olsen; from an army family; b. 1955 in Heidelberg; evolutionary biologist & filmmaker)