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The ultra rich are collecting fossils, and that’s bad for science – podcast

One of the UK’s best fossil collections has been sold overseas in what experts have called a loss to the nation. The collection, which is now on display at the Natural History Museum in Abu Dhabi, was gathered on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast. As dinosaur fossils sell to private collectors for increasingly large sums, scientists are worried that domestic museums are being priced out of the market, and…

The ultra rich are collecting fossils, and that’s bad for science – podcast

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