Can you keep dinosaur bones

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Today there's an even greater push to throw open collections to more people than have ever seen them before. For a fossil to be digitized at all, the original specimen has to be carefully and properly cared looked after, forming the core of what a museum is. Even though many may treat museums as exhibit spaces, the true heart of any museum is in its collections.

Among the rows of fossils, collections managers, paleontologists and volunteers are working constantly to make sure that rock record has a very long afterlife. Riley Black is a freelance science writer specializing in evolution, paleontology and natural history who blogs regularly for Scientific American. Without exquisite care and organization, fossil collections would be unusable to researchers.

Post a Comment. Surface collecting: collecting isolated fossils that are clearly on the surface of the ground. This method is only allowed on provincial Crown land, and on private land with the landowner's permission. Excavating: dislodging or digging up fossils embedded or buried in the ground, or within a rock face. Excavating fossils requires a permit that is only available to professional palaeontologists. You cannot collect fossils in any provincial or national park, or protected area.

Collecting is not allowed in Midland Provincial Park, where the Museum is located. If you live in Alberta and legally surface collect a fossil, you may keep it as custodian, but ownership remains with the Province of Alberta. You cannot sell, alter, or remove the specimen from the province without permission from the Government of Alberta. Only four types of fossils are eligible for personal ownership: ammonite shell, petrified wood, leaf impressions, and oysters.

Fossils collected in Alberta cannot be sold without obtaining a Disposition Certificate from the Government of Alberta through the Royal Tyrrell Museum.