The market for dinosaur fossils is booming
To the chagrin of some palaeontologists
In the badlands of central Montana, Clayton Phipps, a third-generation cowboy, makes his living wrangling metre-long horns. It is a lifestyle he inherited from his father and grandfather. But in Mr Phipps’s case the horns in question belong not to Montana’s herds of Angus and Hereford cattle but the three-horned dinosaur Triceratops horridus.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Digging up the money”
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