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Re: 'Fossils for sale' seized in US

Subject: Re: 'Fossils for sale' seized in US
From: Alan Johnson
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:23:24 +0100
Newsgroups: sci.geo.geology
Carsten Troelsgaard wrote:

"Alan Johnson" <afjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i en meddelelse
news:dtpb26$1tk$02$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Evenin' all. What's general opinion on this kind of thing? Naughty, don't
care, good for business and punters?

"US customs agents say they have seized eight tonnes of prehistoric
fossils - including dinosaur eggs - which they suspect were smuggled from
Argentina.

Hi Alan
One of your fellow contrymen caused a new (10 years old) danish law
eqvivalent to the one that applies to archaeological finds. They found an
Eocene giant turtle, took the inner fossil home to Germany and politely
alerted the public about the outer shell.
The law applies to particularly rare finds and offers a reward to the
finder.

Hi Carsten,

I'm not German.

Alan

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