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Dear Paleonetizens: commercial paleontologists?????!! It is just a contradiction: it is merchant or it is a paleontologist. Paleontologist means that it studies fossils, if it commerce with fossils obviously can't study them, so commerce with fossils is not Paleontology!. I think that those "commercial paleontologists" should be prohibited. Fossils value much more than money: on fossils is Knowledge and Science, and that is the real progress of the Human kind, all of us!. Thousands of fossils are sold as "supermarket trade" by those "commercial paleontologists". For the contradiction, they are not paleontologists! It is an aberration!, LETS STOP IT! Diego. At 08:51 25/08/1997 -0700, you wrote: >All, >For those of you who may have missed the American Scene on the CBS >Evening News (8/21), they featured an interview with a representative of >Southerby's auction house and showed several pieces of "Sue", including >the skull, an arm bone, a loose (large) tooth and a claw. Also a very >'interesting' interpretation of Sue by the auctioner who apparently was >much more used to dealing with 'fine art' than fine fossils. The >auction is apparently scheduled for October and the bidding starts at $1 >Million. > >They also showed two commercial paleontologists from Great Bend, Kansas, >who have collected another, much larger T-rex from South Dakota, have >prepared it and are now trying to sell it for $12 million.....See "Mr >Z-Rex" at: >< http://www.fossilnet.com/1fossil/fnindex.htm >. > >...and I am unaffiliated with either one.....cheers! > > >Mike Everhart >Oceans of Kansas Paleontology >< http://www2.southwind.net/~mjever > > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Diego E Velo: velodi@gtwing.efn.uncor.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Al mundo entero - agregó nuestro Padre el Sol - , doy mi luz y mi resplandor, doy calor a los hombres cuando tienen frío, hago que sus campos fructifiquen y que su ganado se multiplique; cada día que paso doy la vuelta al mundo para estar más enterado de las necesidades del hombre y para satisfacer esas necesidades. Seguid mi ejemplo." Mito inca incluido en los Comentarios Reales de GARCILASO DE LA VEGA, 1556.
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