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Dinosaur Nest Up for Auction in L.A.
This photo released by Bonhams and Butterfields shows a well-preserved 65 million-year-old fossilized raptor egg nest with embryonic remains, from the Cretaceous period. The West Coast auction house is set to bring an array of natural history artifacts to the auction block Friday, Dec. 1, 2006, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Bonhams and Butterfields)
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Every time I read something like this, I get a bit miffed at private collecting.
Granted, the collector's son did study it for a graduate thesis, but if this were available to a scientific institution, an obscene amount of data could've been collected.
Who knows what knowledge the scientific community could've gotten from it?
Oy. What the collector does with the fossil is his business and his business only, but sometimes I can't help but get a bit annoyed at things like this.
P.S. - This article needs more tags, methinks.
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