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Stopping the Million-Dollar Fossil Thieves: Illegal Trade Meets World of Insatiable Research

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After the successful prosecution of Eric Prokopi, a ‘one-man black market in prehistoric fossils,’ paleontologists debate the best, legal ways to continue fossil preservation and recording.

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