Seldom Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Mexico Seizes Largest Batch of Fossils From the Latin American Herald Tribune: Mexican authorities revealed that they recovered 389 fossils, among which are the remains of dinosaurs and trilobites hundreds of millions of years old, that were illegally being offered for sale at an antiquities store in the northern state of Nuevo Leon. The director of the Monterrey office of the National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH), Hector Jaime Treviño, said that this is the most important confiscation to date in Mexico that includes unique fossils. They emphasized that no museum in Mexico has more than 200 pieces of this kind and this collection contains almost double that number, a group that should be sufficient to mount two simultaneous exhibits. Both officials said that the pieces were recovered in a operation in 2006 by the Attorney General's Office from a shop in the Monterrey suburb of San Pedro Garza Garcia. Among the pieces confiscated are remains of mammoths, camels, early horses, sharks, mastodons, various dinosaurs, ammonites (giant marine mollusks that lived about 100 million years ago) and trilobites. INAH announced that it will send an exhibition of the trove of fossils around the country so that the public can view the items. Galveston Island 32 miles long 2 miles wide 134 bars 23 liquor stores any questions? Evolution is Chimp Change. Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain! "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." Ernest Hemingway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fig rocks Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Sure, let the drugs through but confiscate the fossils! Shows you where their priorities lie. Seems to me illegal fossils are really in the news today! The wolf is always lurking in the forest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa dino Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 This makes me think back to late winter, we where down in Mexico It makes me cry to think of the fossils I left behind I was told that illegal fossils and drugs are treated the same IN JAIL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Nick posted a thread about this in Jan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Weird??? This confounded machine ate part of my post, and won't let me edit the one above. That post should have read: Nick posted a thread about this in Jan. EDIT ii: Hmmmm... it is eating anything within the PHP code "url". Here is the link: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?showtopic=4636&view=&hl=mexican&fromsearch=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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