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Dinosaurs for sale: Is the global fossil market harming science? | 101 East Documentary
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- Published on Mar 4, 2026
- The global demand for dinosaur fossils is booming, with increasing interest from wealthy collectors across Asia. In 2024, a Stegosaurus skeleton was sold at an auction in New York for a record $44.6m.
Fossil hunters are raking in profits, while Asian buyers bond over their collections and see fossils as a way to educate the next generation about history.
However, some academics say the commercial fossil trade is unethical and harmful to science.
101 East investigates the multimillion-dollar trade in dinosaur fossils.
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je suis choquée, mais aussi je trouve ce reportage très intéressant. Nous devons combattre et interdire la vente de fossiles. Ces objets devraient être dans des musées, étudiés par des spécialistes , ce ne sont pas des objets d’art c’est des fossils ! Ça devrait être interdit à la vente c’est contraire à l’éthique.
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Dinosaurus are dinos because they didn't help each other ...
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