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A Florida man’s curious trade in Mongolian dinosaurs.

Squeaky the Squirrel · 2013-01-24 00:21:04

Bones of Contention Long Long read, only a bit of the way down but it's interesting. It's about an auction house trying to sell a 75% complete Tarbosaurus bataar. T. bataar (cousin of the T-Rex) that may or may not have been illegally taken out of Mongolia. Breaks off into a bit of a history lesson about Fossil Hunting and…

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Squeaky the Squirrel

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Bones of Contention

Long Long read, only a bit of the way down but it's interesting. It's about an auction house trying to sell a 75% complete Tarbosaurus bataar. T. bataar (cousin of the T-Rex) that may or may not have been illegally taken out of Mongolia.

Breaks off into a bit of a history lesson about Fossil Hunting and how Jurassic Park and the sale of a T Rex for $8.4mil put the industry in the spot light.

I'm only as far as the big P :P

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