Bust out your wallets....

[Pangolinmoth]

www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/gallery_dinoauction/8/

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[sbell]

Sept 17, 2009 23:31:22 GMT Pangolinmoth said:

www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/gallery_dinoauction/8/

Here we were, worried that specimens of these quality would wind up in labs and universities for research. Everyone knows that stuff like this should be mounted on walls in houses and foyers.

Fortunately, I'm sure it was all collected properly with all of the pertinent information included *cough* Nate Murphy *cough*.

Or, in less sarcastic tones--how come the US is the only country with dino skeletons that doesn't protect them officially as national treasures? Anything you see for sale from China, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, most African countries, Mongolia, etc is illegal (regardless of what an ebay auction tells you).

[Pangolinmoth]

Sept 17, 2009 23:36:24 GMT sbell said:

Sept 17, 2009 23:31:22 GMT Pangolinmoth said:

www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/gallery_dinoauction/8/

Or, in less sarcastic tones--how come the US is the only country with dino skeletons that doesn't protect them officially as national treasures?

Might have something to do with our "awesome" policies regarding natural resources or our "respect" we give to cultural treasures.

[Dan]

Don't even think about outbidding me on that Einiosaurus, Cordy.

[mightyjptrex]

It's so sad to see samson the trex go my friends at the carnegie worked on him so hard.

[Meso-Cenozoic]

Wow, they sure did a good job on Samson, though! Congrats! I just hope most of these go to museums so we all can keep admiring them.

Personally, I would love that pair of Ammonites. The colors on them are magnificent! Now, knock off all those annoying zeros, and I'd consider getting them. ;D

[Horridus]

“The items we have in this auction are definitely museum standard, or better..."

Er...what?

[sbell]

Sept 18, 2009 0:08:50 GMT mightyjptrex said:

It's so sad to see samson the trex go my friends at the carnegie worked on him so hard.

How did the Carnegie get suckered into helping a private sale? Or was there a bag of 40 or so pieces of silver involved?

Well, hopefully the good skeletons wind up in a museum somewhere--I hear there are some in Asia and Europe that are quite fond of the US policy of sell it now, regret it later. Because it's not like they won't just find more, everything lasts forever.

[mightyjptrex]

We got paid to restore it because of our dino bone restoring history. We only did the skull and a few other bones. The others were done at other museums I think. I hope a private collector does not get ahold of it. It will be lost forever.

[Griffin]

Eh, stocking stuffers.