Comments on: The Dinosaur Vanishes http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2008/12/02/the-dinosaur-vanishes/ Where Paleontology Meets Pop Culture Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:13:02 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Phil http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2008/12/02/the-dinosaur-vanishes/comment-page-1/#comment-227 Phil Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:48:18 +0000 http://dinosaur.smithsonianmag.com/?p=317#comment-227 If Poachers armed with a vodka bottle can excavate fossils and a researcher needs several years just to secure a "trained" crew then isn't the problem greater than just the poachers? These poachers obviously have it together and should nonetheless benefit in a finders keepers game. Researchers should locate these fossil poachers and fund them to excavate. Poachers get paid and researchers get their fossils. If Poachers armed with a vodka bottle can excavate fossils and a researcher needs several years just to secure a “trained” crew then isn’t the problem greater than just the poachers? These poachers obviously have it together and should nonetheless benefit in a finders keepers game.

Researchers should locate these fossil poachers and fund them to excavate. Poachers get paid and researchers get their fossils.

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