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The Economics of Everyday Things: T. rex Skeletons

People I (Mostly) Admire

CHAPTER

The Origins of Fossil Hunting

Clayton Phipps grew up on a ranch in remote Montana. His family were homesteaders going back generations, scraping a living off the land. In 2003, he nabbed his first big find, the skull of a stiggy mollock,. A rare horned dinosaur that roamed the North American plains around 70 million years ago. He spent nearly two decades trying to sell his prized fossil for $6 million.

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