The global demand for dinosaur fossils is booming, with increasing interest from wealthy collectors across Asia. In 2024, a Stegosaurus skeleton was sold in an auction in New York for a record $44.6 million.
Fossil hunters are raking in profits, while Asian buyers bond over their collections and see fossils as a way to educate the next generation about history.
However, some academics say that the commercial fossil trade is unethical and harmful to science.
101 East investigates the multi million dollar trade in dinosaur fossils.
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