00:00fossils are regularly sold for millions of dollars but they're also regularly donated to
00:05natural history museums because they don't budget for acquisitions unlike art museums obviously they
00:11can't compete with billionaires and bankers but a lot of those billionaires and bankers do loan or
00:17donate these specimens to big natural history museums and also this is also a failure of
00:23of u.s and british law to be honest rather than the consumer because in the u.s and the
00:28uk the law
00:30treats dinosaur fossils more like a sort of mineral rights so there are commercial prospectors in the
00:34u.s whereas a lot of countries where there are a lot of dinosaur fossils like china mongolia brazil
00:40argentina they treat dinosaur fossils as cultural heritage and don't allow them to be exported
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