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    		• Tyrannosaurus.
     
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    The dinosaur artist [videorecording (DVD)] : obsession, betrayal, and the quest for Earth's ultimate trophy.
    by Williams, Paige, 1966-
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    Hachette Books, 2018.
    Call #:560.75 W721d
    Subjects
  • Prokopi, Eric, 1974-
    •  
  • Tarbosaurus bataar.
    •  
  • Tyrannosaurus.
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  • Fossils -- Collection and preservation -- Moral and ethical aspects.
    •  
  • Fossils -- Collection and preservation -- Economic aspects.
    •  
  • Fossils -- Collection and preservation -- Mongolia.
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  • Fossils -- Collectors and collecting -- Florida.
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  • Geopolitics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
    • ISBN: 
    9780316382533
    0316382531
    Format: 
    [videorecording (DVD)] :
    Edition: 
    First ed.
    Description: 
    xxii, 410 pages ; 24 cm
    Notes: 
    "September 2018"--Title page verso.
    Home use only.
    Bibliography: 
    Includes bibliographical references (289-381) and index.
    Contents: 
    "Superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton" -- Land O' Lakes -- Garcia, king of the Ice Age -- Dive -- Deal -- Tucson -- Big game -- Middleman in Japan -- Hollywood headhunters -- The warrior and the explorer -- The Flaming Cliffs -- Market conditions -- "Go Gobi" -- The ghost of Mary Anning -- The last dinosaur -- The President's predicament -- United States of America v. One Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton -- Raid! -- Verdict -- Tarbomania -- Petersburg low -- The dinosaur bus.
    Production: 
    Paige Williams.
    Summary: 
    "In 2012, a New York auction catalogue made an unusual offering: 'a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton.' In fact, Lot 49135 consisted of a nearly complete T. bataar, a close cousin to T. rex, the most famous animal that ever lived. The fossils now on display in Manhattan had been unearthed in Mongolia, some 6,000 miles away. At 8 feet high and 24 feet long, the specimen was spectacular, and the final gavel signaled a winning bid of well over $1 million. Eric Prokopi, a thirty-eight-year-old Floridian, was the man who had brought this extraordinary skeleton to market. A onetime swimmer who spent his teenage years searching for shark teeth, Prokopi's singular obsession with fossils generated a thriving business hunting, preparing, and selling specimens, to clients ranging from natural history museums to avid private collectors like actor Leonardo DiCaprio. But there was a problem. This time, facing financial strain, had Prokopi gone too far? As the T. bataar went to auction, a network of paleontologists alerted the government of Mongolia to the eye-catching lot. As an international custody battle ensued, fueled by geopolitics, Prokopi watched as his own world unraveled. In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, The Dinosaur Artist is a stunning work of narrative journalism about humans' relationship with natural history and a seemingly intractable conflict between science and commerce. A story that stretches from Florida's Land O' Lakes to the Gobi Desert, The Dinosaur Artist illuminates the history of fossil collecting--a wildly popular, yet sometimes murky, risky business, populated by eccentrics and obsessives, where the lines between poacher and hunter, collector and smuggler, enthusiast and opportunist, can easily blur. In her first book, ... writer Paige Williams has given readers an irresistible story that spans continents, cultures, and millennia as she examines the question of who, ultimately, owns the past."--Dust jacket.
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    True crime.
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