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Monday, June 2, 2014

Careless Handling Damages London's Priceless Dinosaur Fossils

Careless Handling Damages London's Priceless Dinosaur Fossils Careless employees and tourists are ruining priceless exhibits at the Natural Museum, including dinosaur fossils and bones of endangered species, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. The exhibits that needed repairs included a massospondylus, an early plant-eater that roamed the planet about 200 million years ago, a camarasaurus, another giant herbivore dating back 155 million years and a moeritherium, a prehistoric relative of the elephant that lived 37 million years ago. Skeletons of endangered species were also damaged by visitors, including tusks that were broken off a babirusa, a pig-deer found on just four Indonesian islands, by children playing around the exhibit.




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