In the market for a attractively preserved , 150 - million - year - older , 55 - foot farseeing Diplodocus skeleton ? HAVE WE get A slew FOR YOU . A 19 - foot tall sauropod specimen ( locomote by the name of “ Misty”),will be up for auction next month , and is wait to fetch nigh to a million dollar . But the bang-up price could be to science .
“ That is really incredibly gaudy if you compare it with a gatherer ’s gondola , ” said innate chronicle expert Errol Fuller , who will curate the auction sale , “ and you ’ve get a much more salient , maw - smacking exposition . ”
But auction sale like these also get a spectacular , seaman - smacking threat to paleontology , says dinosaur expert Brian Switek , in an email to io9 . “ The bones are often dug up with no scientific data point collection and go to a ) a private buyer , or b ) a museum far , far away where masses ca n’t see the rude history heritage of their own nation , ” he writes . “ Reputable museums ca n’t compete , and should n’t , because the money spent on such a skeleton is better put into fieldwork and faculty . ”
When historical fossils are lost at auction sale , it ’s often science – and the public – that turn a loss the most .
[ ViaGeekologie ]
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