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#1 The last day of his old life, the dinosaur hunter went to the beach. He was 38 years old. His daughter was three years old. He had never been a drinker, but now he needed the dulling effect of at least one vodka cocktail before he could sleep.
#2 Amanda could look out the window of their house and see Eric working late into the night in his workshop. He was a fossil dealer, and he sold fossils by email blast and on eBay. He also hosted a sales booth at the world’s largest natural history shows.
#3 The most popular collectibles were the ones you could put on a shelf as a conversation piece, like meteorites and mammal skulls. Dinosaurs transcended everything, though. They were far more successful than humans, and they dominated Earth for 166 million years.
#4 The skeleton of Tarbosaurus bataar, an Asian cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex, was sold at auction for $950,000 to $1. 5 million. It had been advertised and featured in the news for weeks.

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Paleontology

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	31 juillet 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822556270
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

The last day of his old life, the dinosaur hunter went to the beach. He was 38 years old. His daughter was three years old. He had never been a drinker, but now he needed the dulling effect of at least one vodka cocktail before he could sleep.

#2

Amanda could look out the window of their house and see Eric working late into the night in his workshop. He was a fossil dealer, and he sold fossils by email blast and on eBay. He also hosted a sales booth at the world’s largest natural history shows.

#3

The most popular collectibles were the ones you could put on a shelf as a conversation piece, like meteorites and mammal skulls. Dinosaurs transcended everything, though. They were far more successful than humans, and they dominated Earth for 166 million years.

#4

The skeleton of Tarbosaurus bataar, an Asian cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex, was sold at auction for $950,000 to $1. 5 million. It had been advertised and featured in the news for weeks.

#5

Bolor was a paleontologist who had spent most of her adult life in the United States. She had heard about the auction and went to see what was going on.

#6

The Gobi’s most stunning creatures were the dinosaurs that had lived in the area in diverse abundance and whose remains lay preserved with unusual clarity in the largely undisturbed desert. Western kids had access to information about dinosaurs, but paleontology was not a place for kids in Mongolia.

#7

Bolor had been trying to raise awareness of the importance of Gobi fossils in her country and beyond. She had been worried about poachers, who had been hitting Gobi dinosaur sites with increasing frequency. The difference between a fossil poacher and a fossil hunter is the same as the difference between a poacher and a hunter of wildlife: one respects boundaries, and the other doesn’t.

#8

Paleontologists like Mark Norell, who was the chairman and curator of the paleontology division at the American Museum of Natural History, liked to think about the creativity of science. They liked to ask questions and come up with ideas.

#9

Norell worked out of a light-infused museum office at the top of the granite turret that had overlooked Central Park since the late 1800s. The spiritual centerpiece of his office was an antique desk that had once belonged to Barnum Brown, the discoverer of T. rex.

#10

The T. bataar and Saichania specimens were clearly excavated in Mongolia, as the only location where these dinosaurs are found. However, the bones were the best evidence. To be sure of their facts, Norell and Bolor went to the auction preview to see the specimen in person.

#11

The bataar auction went forward as planned. Forty-eight seconds of bidding yielded a hammer price of $1,052,500, an impending payout that Eric Prokopi desperately needed to pocket.

#12

Florida is a flat and featureless state compared to other states, but it is rich in water. It was home to a young German woman named Doris Trappe, who was a member of a naturist colony. She was hardworking, genial, and extremely tanned.

#13

Bill and Doris’s marriage was extremely loving and devoted, and they had a very close relationship. They had a son, Eric, in 1973. Doris was extremely devoted to her son, and never seemed to mind being alone with him.

#14

Eric was a swimmer who made it to the state championships. He was a top student, and his mother, Doris, documented his grades and teachers’ compliments on his hard work and positive attitude.

#15

The Prokopis family would go on weekends to Venice, Florida, where they would search for shark teeth. The town was nicknamed the Shark Tooth Capital of the World, and it has hosted an annual festival since May.

#16

When Eric was five, he found his first shark tooth at Venice. It was not just a souvenir, but a reminder that vertebrate fossils truly represent life. They are not just dry bones but are animals that ate, drank, fought, and reproduced much in the same manner as similar animals are doing today.

#17

Frank Garcia was a paleontologist who lived in old West Tampa. He had a beautiful voice, and people often compared him to Johnny Cash. He loved the library, and would spend hours there studying books about dinosaurs.

#18

As Frank got into paleontology, he began to find fossils in the wild. He taught himself how to scuba dive, and went diving in the rivers he found Pleistocene mammals and spear points and scrapers.

#19

After finding the extraordinary skull of a baleen whale, Frank was made a Smithsonian field associate by the museum. The honorary title recognized his heroic volume of collecting.

#20

On June 27, 1983, Frank found the richest Pleistocene fossil bed in all of North America. He went live on NBC’s Today show, beaming in from a Florida studio, to chat with the host, Bryant Gumbel.

#21

Frank’s fossils were being studied and respected by scientists all over the world. He’d added at least five type specimens to the fossil record, including a bizarre, distant relative of camels that was named Kyptoceras amatorum.

#22

In the late 1970s, commercial hunters formed a trade group, the Association of Applied Paleontological Sciences, to promote the commercialization of fossils. Paleontologists were lobbying the US government to make fossils off-limits to commercial hunters.

#23

Frank was a freelance paleontologist, and he self-published a memoir, Sunrise at Bone Valley, with his fossil sketches in the back pages and himself on the soft cover. He taped himself singing Besame Mucho, one of his favorite songs, and eventually put it on YouTube.

#24

The Ice Age graveyard near Cockroach Bay, ninety minutes round trip, was a major attraction for Eric and his mom. They would search the fossilized remains of megafauna, which were often found in the toothed scoops of construction backhoes.

#25

Doris had given birth to Eric in a Tampa hospital, but it was to the waters that he seemed born.

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