Unusually well-preserved dino nest up for auction

[j d worthington]

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I'm hoping that someone with genuine concern for the importance of this will be the purchaser, be it individual or institution:

Rare dinosaur nest with eggs goes on sale - Yahoo! News

 

[Culhwch]

If only I had a spare two hundred grand. The Queensland Museum would love me. If it had wings, I'm sure they'd name one after me.

I do hope it goes somewhere on display to the public, not into some collector's pool room....

 

[HoopyFrood]

Ooh, if only I could buy them....Still, I hope somehow who actually appreciates such things buys it, and not someone who thinks it will make a nice display on bedside table! It should go to a museum or something, where everyone can see it.

 

[littlemissattitude]

I saw that last night. Sat here wishing I had enough money to bid...I'm sure the L.A. County Museum of Natural History would like to have it, and if I had the money and bought it, I would have been willing to put it in their care...that's where I met my first dinosaur fossil, after all. Ah, well. Here's hoping that someone responsible buys it.

 

[Rosemary]

I see that the fossils were found in China.

Surely that is where they should be returned to...for their Natural Museum.

If not, I too hope it will go to a museum where they will be cared for and that the public will be allowed to view them...

 

[Paige Turner]

I think it would look pretty good in MY pool room. And I could finally get rid of my black velvet bullfighter painting.

Like just about anything "historical" (or pre-historical, as the case may be) I love these little slice-of-life pieces. They're so much more evocative than the big, showy, full-scale items. The little dinsoaurs are almost cute. I mean, for bits of fossilized bone.