George Hrynewich was born in Toronto, and has essentially split his life between living in Ontario, PEI, and Nova Scotia. He is in the Navy and palaeontology is hobby.

He started collecting in 1969, at the age of five. "The first fossil I found was a shell, in Ontario, while on a field trip. I can't honestly remember what kind of shell!" George started collecting in Nova Scotia in 1989. Bob Grantham, curator of Geology at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, actually started him looking seriously in Nova Scotia.

In 1993 he was introduced to Hans-Dieter Sues, by Dale Russell, who was at the Canadian Museum of Nature at that time. He has worked extensively with Paul Olsen, of Columbia University, and Hans since then. He has been receiving Heritage Research permits for research in the Triassic and Jurassic bed of Nova Scotia for a number of years.

He has been helping Hans Sues with his ongoing research of Triassic / Jurassic reptiles. Specifically, he has been focusing on small Triassic reptiles called Procolophonids. Procolophons not a well studied group, and Nova Scotia has provided some of the best preserved remains of these creatures in the world. In 1998, Hans, and Don Baird published a paper with George's help. It described three new taxa unique to Nova Scotia. He has also worked on Jurassic dinosaur material; collecting a partial Prosauropod for the Fundy Museum during the mid 1990's.

"Nova Scotia's reptile fossils are among the best in the world, and help palaeontologists in their study of the diverse and wonderful collection of land animals that once inhabited our planet."

George Hrynewich was appointed Field Associate of the Department of Palaeobiology at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1999.