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6. T. rex Skeletons

The Economics of Everyday Things

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How to Sell a Dinosaur Skeleton

Peter Larson started out in the 70s selling small fossils at trade shows. One day, he was approached by a museum that said, can you get us a dinosaur skeleton? From start to finish, getting a dinosaur fossil out of the ground and into a buyer's hands can take two to three years.

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