UPDATE: Nest saved from auction house

[Brian Baziak <baziak@hotmail.com>]

http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_046213657.html

"Customs agents have seized fossilized dinosaur eggs that apparently were 
smuggled out of China and auctioned for $420,000.

The fossils were seized late last week from the Bonhams and Butterfields 
auction house in Los Angeles.

The 22 eggs, each 65 million years old, were so well-preserved that 
curled-up embryonic raptors are visible inside 19 of them.

The eggs were auctioned in December to an undisclosed buyer but the 
transaction was scrubbed before any money changed hands after concerns about 
the legality of their export were raised.

The eggs were found in Guandong province, China, in 1984, shipped to Taiwan 
and then shipped to a Florida collector in 2004.

No arrests have been made but the auction house is cooperating with the 
investigation."


Well score one for science I guess.

Brian Baziak

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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving 
safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in 
sideways - beer in one hand - chicken in the other - body thoroughly used 
up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride!"