Re: Fossils/mineral rights

[art@acc.com (Art Berggreen)]

>It's also my second-hand understanding that the courts,  in the "Sue" case,
> essentially ruled that fossils are to be treated like any other mineral
>resource. 
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>Well, I guess they COULD support that claim since fossils are no longer bone
>and such but have been replaced over millennia by stone  :/

That is often the case, but under the right conditions, the original
bone can remain intact.  There have recently been reports published
of DNA fragments being recovered from dinosaur bone material.  This
was considered an impossibility just a few years ago.

Art