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The private sale of fossils has attracted criticism from paleontologists, as it presents an obstacle to fossils being publicly accessible to research. [2] Most countries where relatively complete dinosaur specimens are commonly found have laws against the export of fossils. The United States allows the sale of specimens collected on private ...
Researchers said the sale of Apex is likely going to drive up the price of dinosaur fossils being sold commercially, making it even harder for museums or other public institutions to acquire them.
Billionaire hedge fund owner Ken Griffin has purchased the largest stegosaurus fossil ever found for a record $44.6m (£34.3m).. The Citadel hedge fund founder bought the fossil, known as “Apex ...
In the United States, it is legal to sell fossils collected on private land. [7] In Mongolia and China the export of fossils is illegal. [9] [11] Brazil considers all fossils as federal assets and prohibits their trade since 1942, banned the permanent exports of holotypes and other fossils of national interest in 1990, and requires permits by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation ...
Fossil collecting – Collecting fossils to study, collect or sell; Fossil park; Jurassic Coast – World Heritage Site on the coast of southern England; Lagerstätte – Sedimentary deposit with well-preserved extraordinary fossils; Lists of dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic units; List of fossil parks around the world; List of fossil parks in India
Call it shovel and pail-eontology. Three North Dakota boys made the extraordinary discovery of a highly rare Tyrannosaurus rex fossil that could change what we know about dinosaurs.
Borealopelta was a large dinosaur, measuring 5.5 metres (18 ft) long and weighing 1.3 metric tons (1.4 short tons). The Suncor specimen is remarkable for its three-dimensional preservation of a large, articulated dinosaur complete with soft tissue.
Fossils from a trio of dinosaurs have sold for more than £12m at auction. The prehistoric skeletons, which date back approximately 150 million years, fetched £12.4m ($15.7m) at Christie's in London.