Friday 25 April 2014

Skeletons In Our Closets: Will The Private Market For Dinosaur Bones Destroy Us All?

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We've all heard about the fossil hunters who have recently pleaded guilty to smuggling rare dinosaur bones out of Mongolia and into the United States. But scientists like Kenshu Shimada are concerned about the private market for fossils more generally.

They believe important information that could shed light on subjects such as climate change and our current extinction cycle may be hidden away in some of the fossils being scooped up and locked away by private collectors.

(thanks Ben)

1 comment(s):

Anonymous said...

Collectors Weekly has gone from a really good hobby site to publishing some of the dumbest, most politically charged leftist garbage on the internet. Sad.