As the Netherlands implemented the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Dick Mol was trained to be a CITES specialist, spending much time on the job studying bones, eventually accumulating ample knowledge to compensate for an academic career.
Dick has catalogued fossil remains dredged from the bottom of the North Sea, and published over fifty papers on his finds.
[2] Since 1990, he has been associated with The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota, collaborating with Larry Agenbroad on four papers dealing with field and laboratory research in paleontology, geology and paleoecology.
[3] Dick returned to Siberia several times, continuing the search and study of Pleistocene remains on the Taimyr Peninsula using an ice cave in Khatanga, Russia.
He was also part of the team that recovered the Yukagir mammoth in Yakutia,[4] which has been on display at Expo 2005 in Aichi Japan[5] (Mol et al. 2006c).
[8] His work has brought him international recognition for his studies on Quaternary paleontology, the study of the Pleistocene and today's Holocene Epochs Research associate at the Scientific coordinator of the scientific programme “Who or What killed the Mammoths” (Saint-Mandé, France and Khatanga – Siberia, Russia) (since 1998) Dick Mol is married to Friedje and has two children.
"The Yukagir Mammoth: Brief History, 14C Dates, Individual Age, Gender, Size, Physical and Environmental Conditions and Storage" (PDF).