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But faster and with a stronger bite. i asked gregory erickson, a dinosaur paleo biologist at florida state university, whether he was disappointed that the dinosaur had gone to a private buyer. as a scientist, i think i can speak on behalf of every vertebrate palaeontologist, anytime you have a vertebrate fossil, particularly this one, which is obviously a very exciting specimen, it s sort of robbing us of intellectual property so unfortunately, a specimen like this gets into private hands, we have to ignore it as if it doesn t exist, we can t publish on it, we can t do anything so in a perfect world, this person would donated to an accredited museum but as far as we are concerned, it went into a black hole. given the fact that dinosaur skeletons continue to, what, rake up millions of dollars at auctions, it s likely to have priced people like yourself, ....
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And the fossil hunter who found it? well, he s just six years old. the bbc sjo black has the story. the tooth of one of the largest prehistoric sharks, extinct for roughly 3.5 million years. it s a discovery that any experienced palaeontologist would be thrilled with, but this megalodon tooth was unearthed by a six year old, and now sammy and his fossil are the talk of his school. sammy, i like yourfossil. i think the tooth was heavy. it s really big, and megalodons are from ages ago. but what does sammy make of it all? so it s, like, so big, i didn t even know what it was. and how did you find out what it was? my daddy told me. there were clearly some very serious fossil hunters down there, with all the proper gear, and then me and sammy in muddy boots, walking along the beach, hoping to find a shark s tooth, and instead turning up this megalodon tooth. ....
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