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Re: 'Fossils for sale' seized in US

Subject: Re: 'Fossils for sale' seized in US
From: "Carsten Troelsgaard"
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:47:25 +0100
Newsgroups: sci.geo.geology
"Alan Johnson" <afjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i en meddelelse 
news:dts33a$g6u$00$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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.

Your name sure doesn't sound like it, but the 'online.de' does.

Carsten 



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