[4] This was his most important work, and it was start by both Rich and his wife and colleague, Patricia Vickers-Rich.

[1] The dig was featured on the BBC mini documentary series Walking with Dinosaurs in episode 5, Spirits of the Silent Forest, which aired in 1999.

Together the couple described the dinosaur genera Leaellynasaura and Timimus, naming them after their daughter and son, Leaellyn and Tim Rich, respectively.

In 2012, Thomas Rich was diagnosed with Macular Degeneration, an eye disease that causes loss of vision.

[6] Thomas Rich is also honored in the epithet of the ancient thylacinid species Nimbacinus richi.