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摘要

Everyone loves dinosaurs―maybe even a little too much. In the American west, where massive, fossilised skeletons often lurk beneath the badlands, the remains of dinosaurs and other vertebrates have become the subject of often-bitter struggles between scholars and commercial collectors. Concerns about animal fossils have historically taken a back seat to discoveries involving human remains, such as those of Kennewick Man. This month, a court ruling granted scientists access to this skeleton―the subject of a bitter six-year court dispute. Now, though, animal fossils are drawing attention too.