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Baby T rex goes on sale on eBay, sparking paleontologists' outcry
The Guardian ^
| April 16, 2019
| Sam Wolfson
Posted on 04/17/2019 11:50:47 AM PDT by centurion316
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I do not know Alan Detrich, but I am acquainted with his wife. I have followed his career for some years. He makes news when he sells a valuable specimen because the professional paleontologists don't like it. He collects his fossils legally, on private land and with the permission of the land owners and invites people to visit his finds. This specimen was in his barn for years. The University of Kansas is in the middle of another dust up, because of a find by one of their doctoral candidates, Robert DePalma who has made a major find of evidence of the debris resulting from the Chicxulub Asteroid event. He has been known to sell some of his fossil finds, apparently a major sin in that world.
To: centurion316
Better get that neutered before it turns mean.
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posted on
04/17/2019 11:51:44 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: centurion316
To: centurion316
In an open letter published last week, SVPs members said that it was regrettable that the fossil was exhibited before it could be studied. That action, which brought the fossil to the attention of hundreds or thousands of visitors, potentially enhanced its value, ... I wonder if it will prove my theory that all brontosauruses are thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle and then thin again at the far end.
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posted on
04/17/2019 11:54:51 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: centurion316
The skeleton...was first discovered in 2013, on private land in Montana. It became the property of the man who discovered it, Alan Detrich, a professional fossil hunter If someone discovers something on my land he owns it instead of me? Or did the land owner already get his cut?
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posted on
04/17/2019 11:56:11 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
To: dfwgator
Wonder if it was post birth aborted
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posted on
04/17/2019 11:56:15 AM PDT
by
shadeaud
(Live in the path of God and leave justice to Him)
To: KarlInOhio
I am not privy to the arrangement between the fossil hunter and the land owner
To: centurion316
I placed two bids. One on that and one on the item right next to it - the Brooklyn Bridge. I’m hoping to win the bid on at least one of them.
To: VietVet876
Marc Bolan sees what you did.
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posted on
04/17/2019 11:59:54 AM PDT
by
redshawk
(0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
To: centurion316
I wish I had three million bucks.
I wouldnt spend it on this.
If I want to see some old bones, Ill go see Hillary.
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posted on
04/17/2019 12:01:31 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: KarlInOhio
The fossil hunter almost certainly bought digging rights that gave him ownership of the fossils found.
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posted on
04/17/2019 12:01:31 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: VietVet876
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posted on
04/17/2019 12:02:07 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: centurion316
Perhaps the scientists at University of Kansas Natural History Museum or somewhere else could bid on it.
It sounds like they just want access to it for free.
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posted on
04/17/2019 12:02:57 PM PDT
by
Ol' Dan Tucker
(For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
To: KarlInOhio
If someone discovers something on my land he owns it instead of me? Or did the land owner already get his cut?
...
I’ve read in other recent fossil articles that the private collectors will pay a fee or lease the land for the rights to hunt for and keep the fossils.
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posted on
04/17/2019 12:04:59 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Facts are racist.)
To: blueunicorn6
If I want to see some old bones, Ill go see Hillary.
Or just ask Kamel Harris about Willies Ole bone.
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posted on
04/17/2019 12:05:19 PM PDT
by
redshawk
(0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
To: centurion316
Someone could make a lot of money selling 3D printed T-rex skulls.
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posted on
04/17/2019 12:06:11 PM PDT
by
aimhigh
(THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
To: blueunicorn6
If I want to see some old bones, Ill go see Hillary.
—
No bones to see there. She’s all cankle.
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posted on
04/17/2019 12:08:57 PM PDT
by
samtheman
(To steal an election, who do you collude with? Russians in Russia or Mexicans in California?)
To: centurion316
Elitism. Many academics and experts feel that they are entitled to control and moral judgement over everything related to their field.
The attitude is the worst with social scientists, which, IMHO, is why they are all statists and leftists.
Is someone who pays $2.5 million for a T-Rex fossil going to use it for target practice? They will probably protect and preserve it better than many museums.
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posted on
04/17/2019 12:10:16 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: centurion316
If the Paleontologists are so worried about losing access to the fossil they can always chip in and buy it.
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