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Fossil in drawer turns out to be touchstone dinosaur artifact

The four-inch-wide fragment had been quietly stored for decades in England when it caught the eye of a paleontologist.
Digital Journal

How dinosaur fossils became artifact connoisseur JR Bissell’s newest buried treasure

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. When one mentions buried treasure, the mind can’t help but immediately jump to the golden age of piracy, conjuring up images of wooden ...
Variety

‘The Bones’ Review: It’s Paleontologists vs. Profit in Entertaining Look at the Fossil Trade

Jeremy Xido’s globe-trotting documentary finds science outbid by private collectors in a high-stakes competition for dinosaur artifacts. Yes, there is an actual market for such things, as Jeremy ...

Dinosaur-loving nine-year-old boy recognised by Guinness World Records as youngest museum curator

Anderson Taylor of Cambridge, Illinois has officially been recognised by Guinness World Records as the youngest museum ...
Local 12 WKRC Cincinnati

Museum Center partners on dinosaur digs to expand fossil collection

CINCINNATI (Cincinnati Business Courier) - Someone once said that being a paleontologist is like being a coroner, except that all the witnesses are dead and the evidence has been left out in the rain ...
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Fossil in drawer turns out to be touchstone dinosaur artifact

Researchers discovered the vertebra during a 1985 expedition to James Ross Island and assumed it belonged to a marine reptile from the Late Cretaceous Period, about 75 million years ago. The four-inch ...