Nicola Davis

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498 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 18 Aug

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Science Weekly · The ultra rich are collecting fossils, and that’s bad for science · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

However, others have said it's not just one or two fossils, it's a whole collection of amazing fossils.

And there should have been ways to keep it in the UK.

Um essentially when it comes to collecting fossils, there are codes of conduct.

Now, these are voluntary uh and different parts of the UK have different codes of conduct and ways of handling this.

But in a nutshell, the code of conduct basically says if you follow this code of conduct, what you find, the ownership will be transferred from the landowner to you, the collector.

If you find something loose on the beach, you can just essentially take it home with you.

If you find something that's really

Wow, or very exciting, then uh you should go and inform the experts and so on and have it recorded.

So if you just find a little ammonite whacket in your pocket, if you go and find some enormous Icha, maybe you know you should go and go and inform someone.

You should go in go in information.

And so there's sort of various things in place there to try to make sure that the big fines are recorded, and it very much emphasizes that fossil collectors are really important.

important.

These fossils are coming out of cliffs which are being eroded by the sea.

And if these fossils are not found and collected, they could just be lost.

Then everybody loses out.

So there's an acknowledgement that that's really important.

And this takes time, it takes effort.

From my own experience just of a day out on the beach, so you could spend a lot of time knocking anything.

That might just be my lack of expertise.

I'm sure people with keener eyes and greater savvy than I would do a much better job.

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