7/3/22

Dino digs in Indian Country can cost you

Dragons have existed in literary mythology at least since Beowulf. A Texas fossil unearthed in 1971 and reported in a story on NPR before they archived on the Web, had me thinking about the dragon myth after scientists constructed a reproduction of a creature named Quetzalcoatlus. 

Results of the Chicxulub bolide impact on Laramidia after the Cretaceous–Paleogene or K-Pg extinction and on the Hell Creek Formation in four states and near Tanis, North Dakota buried millions of creatures. A Triceratops fossil was unearthed in 2015 and restored in Italy then sold for $7.7 million. 

In June a group of paleontologists, students and amateurs who pay to dig unearthed another juvenile triceratops skull from the Cretaceous Period in the formation near Baker, Montana. Paleo Prospectors continues at another site beginning Sunday near Newcastle, Wyoming through July 30 and boasts economic impacts in communities near their field locations. 

But if dinosaur fossils are being excavated from unceded lands in Indian Country why aren't the proceeds from their sales being shared with Native Nations?

Learn more at the Fallon County Times.
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  1. larry kurtzJuly 7, 2022 at 4:50 AM

    "The fossilized skeleton of a T. rex relative that roamed the earth about 76 million years ago and was discovered in Montana in 2018 will be auctioned in New York this month, Sotheby's announced Tuesday. Gorgosaurus was an apex carnivore that lived in what is now the western United States and Canada during the late Cretaceous Period. It predated its relative the Tyrannosaurus rex by 10 million years."

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