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Darwin's Lost Fossils

Galvasean · 2012-01-18 01:02:13

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/17/scientists-find-hundreds-lost-fossils-from-darwin-collection/?intcmp=obinsite#ixzz1jlcvEVMN I always find it daft how stuff goes missing like that all the time in palaeontology.

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British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/17/scientists-find-hundreds-lost-fossils-from-darwin-collection/?intcmp=obinsite#ixzz1jlcvEVMN

I always find it daft how stuff goes missing like that all the time in palaeontology.

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#2 20-01-2012 4:14pm

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I saw this on the news (BBC) Makes me wonder who the idiots who lost them in the first place were? And what else is hidden away by such people? We could be searching for things already found. Frustrates the heck out of me to be honest.

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Never trust a palaeontologist with your car keys...

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