Solid article. And Cary @doublebeam.bsky.social likely isn't wrong in his prediction. (In fact, it has already happened, just not over a dinosaur; paleontologist Charles Repenning was murdered in his home in January 2005 by burglars looking to steal fossils among other things.)
@doublebeam.bsky.socialI said it, & I mean it, in this new article by @sciam.bsky.social on the ever increasing conflicts between academic & commercial paleo:
“I really think that, in a very short period of time, we will see someone killed in the United States over a dinosaur"
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
scientificamerican.com
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