Ultra-rich collectors buying up fossils — scientists being priced out of discoveries

One of the UK's finest fossil collections, gathered on Dorset's Jurassic Coast, has been sold overseas and is now on display at the Natural History Museum in Abu Dhabi. Scientists warn that wealthy private collectors are driving up prices for dinosaur fossils, pricing out public museums and cutting off researchers from valuable specimens. Experts have described the sale as a significant loss for both British science and national heritage.

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