Ediacaran fossil theft case

[Chris Nedin <cnedin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stop Press

Perth, Australia

After the precedent had been set in the previous trial when one of the
defendants was found guilty of illegally exporting crinoid specimens out of
the country, the defendants in the aledged illegal removal and export of
the type specimen of _Charnodiscus arborius_ from the Flinders Ranges
National Park, South Australia to Japan, have today pleaded guilty to the
charges.

Chris

cnedin@geology.adelaide.edu.au                  nedin@ediacara.org
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Many say it was a mistake to come down from the trees, some say
the move out of the oceans was a bad idea. Me, I say the stiffening
of the notochord in the Cambrian was where it all went wrong,
it was all downhill from there.