I agree this should belong to everybody, but fossil hunting is an expensive venture. Here is a quote from Alan Detrich, thw owner of the T rex.
[1] “Millionaires aren’t rich enough to buy these dinosaurs. I don’t have a problem with selling to billionaires, because they’ve got enough money to protect this fossil and take really good care of it … At some point, all these things end up in museums.”
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 25.9 ms ] thread[1] “Millionaires aren’t rich enough to buy these dinosaurs. I don’t have a problem with selling to billionaires, because they’ve got enough money to protect this fossil and take really good care of it … At some point, all these things end up in museums.”
>At some point these things end up in museums.
I guess you can call it a win-win.
[1] - [https://www2.ljworld.com/news/ku/2019/apr/10/ku-museum-pulls...
"It belongs in a museum!" - Indiana Jones