Didier Dutheil was born in Paris and grew up on his grandfather and mother's farm in the center of France.

When he was a kid he like to turn over rocks and discover the life underneath. Before he moved to Paris at the age of eight, his grandfather and mother gave him a cow called Margueritte as a present.

Currently, Didier is studying for his Ph.D. at the Paris Museum of Natural History. He also writes and produces documentaries.

Didier has traveled with Paul to Niger twice before and also to Brazil in 1996 and Morocco in 1995. Like Chris, Didier also hurt himself playing sports recently and will be in the field with an ankle brace.

Didier is looking forward to learning about the paleoenvironment of the dinosaurs and looking for everything which looks different than a dinosaur."