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The bidding war between the two Hollywood stars was intense as the price soared for the 67 million-year-old dinosaur skull.
Only when it reached $276,000 did Leonardo DiCaprio blink - and Nicolas Cage walked away from the Beverley Hills auction with a ferocious-looking addition to his fossil collection.
As this recent battle of the celebrities for the head of a tyrannosauras bataar the Asian cousin of T-rex proved, dinosaur bones are emerging as the new, collectible must-haves for the multi-millionaires of Hollywood, Wall Street and Silicon Valley.

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Administrative Court yesterday nullified a cabinet resolution which had scaled back the size of a protected site of fossilised mud snail layers to make way for industrial mining, sounding a victory for villagers in Lampang. The verdict came after a group of villagers petitioned the Administrative Court in 2003, seeking protection for a 13-million-year-old fossil site in Mae Moh district from mining activity.

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 The already controversial location chosen for a future MRT maintenance depot is home to centuries-old tombs and fossils of prehistoric sealife  
A historian called yesterday for stronger conservation measures for Lo Sheng ("Happy Life") Sanatorium after discovering fossils at the construction site of an MRT maintenance depot last month.

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Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito digs for fossils, meets with parents of Mongolian sumo Asashoryu
In the midst of an official visit to Mongolia, Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito met the parents of Mongolian sumo grand champion Asashoryu on Saturday in Kharkhorin.
Asashoryu's father, Dolgorsuren, and mother, Purevbadam ushered the Prince into their ger where the Prince mentioned his daughter Aikos devotion to following sumo wrestling.
Earlier in his trip, the Price visited Mongolia's Natural History Museum and a paleontology center in Ulaanbaatar.  

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The Central Administrative Court has set July 26 to hand down its verdict on whether four government entities were implicated in malpractice leading to the destruction of the world's richest freshwater snail fossil deposit in Lampang. The suit was filed by residents of Mae Moh district, where what remains of the fossil deposit is located.
It names as defendants the industry minister, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat), the cabinet, and the Primary Industries and Mines Department.

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Scotland is pioneering a new project to protect the planet's ancient fossils with the launch of the world's first national Fossil Code.
The code has been created to stop the damage caused by irresponsible collectors who use crowbars, sledgehammers and power saws in their search for relics.
Fossil sites in Skye, Caithness, Ayrshire and Lesmahagow in South Lanarkshire are all under threat from the problem, according to Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) who developed the initiative.
It is hoped the project will put an end to the illegal trade of fossils.

Source The Scotsman

Scotland has a remarkably rich geological heritage that spans nearly 3 billion years of Earth's history. Part of this 'Earth heritage', is the record of the development and evolution of life on Earth in the form of fossils. Comprising the remains and traces of plants and animals from the geological past preserved in rock, the fossil heritage has a crucial role in elucidating Scotland's geological development, and allows the correlation of Scotland's rock sequences with those worldwide.
Fossils are an irreplaceable and finite resource used for scientific investigation, education, recreation and commercial purposes. However, this element of Scotland's Earth heritage is vulnerable to abuse, damage and neglect and consequently requires considered management and a degree of safeguarding to ensure its survival for future generations.

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