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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 ...
In 2012, Fossil, Inc. agreed to purchase Skagen Designs and some of its partners for approximately $225 million in cash and 150,000 Fossil shares. The total value paid by Fossil would be approximately $236.8 million. [12] [13] In early 2013, Fossil introduced their upscale and more expensive "Fossil Swiss" line of watches which are made in ...
Shortly afterwards, the specimens went on sale, including auctioning at Bonhams, but no purchase was made. [ 8 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In 2016, Lindsay Zanno of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences reached out to Phipps, starting negotiations to purchase the fossil, with funds being raised through the private nonprofit Friends of the North ...
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The Black Hills Institute had obtained permission from the owner of the land, Maurice Williams, to excavate and remove the skeleton, and had paid Williams US$5,000 for the remains. [14] Williams later claimed that the money had not been for the sale of the fossil and that he had only allowed Larson to remove and clean the fossil for a later sale.
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Big John is part of a larger run up in auction prices for dinosaur remains, [26] [27] and was, until the sale of Apex in 2024, the most expensive non-Tyrannosaurus fossil ever sold at auction. [ 4 ] [ 28 ] However, its price was substantially lower than the $ 27.5 million ($31.8 million with fees and costs) paid in 2020 for the Tyrannosaurus ...
The Aurora Fossil Museum is a natural science museum in Aurora, North Carolina. The museum's collection is built around fossils recovered from the nearby phosphate mine owned since 1995 by PotashCorp , but also includes fossil specimens donated from around the world as well as geology and meteorite displays.