Raymond Liu

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1,052 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 20 Aug

Raymond Liu’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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So it essentially leaves up, leaves it up to the super rich as viable buyers.
Dr. Thomas Carr, a vertebrate paleontologist said a private collection has no guarantee that a fossil will stay in a collection for all time.
Whereas a public trust mission is to maintain, conserve and curate its collection indefinitely.
So if the future of fossil market, if the future of a fossil market is moving towards being a playground for the super rich, it could be at the detriment for the science community.
Yeah, and as you mentioned, there's cases where the private owners can loan out the fossil over to museums.
And during that time, the museums have time to research it.
But let's say if they're in the middle of a study and the private collector- Ken Griffin's like, bring that dino back.
Yeah, he brings it back and he's just like, I want to upsell it and sell it to someone else.
So it kind of leaves the bones kind of in limbo status, which museums makes it really hard to manage.
Peter Larson, though, a commercial paleontologist,
actually, who was part of the team that excavated Stan in the early 90s, actually defended the high price tag, saying that many people don't realize it takes years to prepare a fossil for sale.
And auctioneers would argue, shouldn't these fossil hunters be rewarded for their hard work versus giving it up to the public?
Okay, let's sprint to the finish with some final headlines.
Tough time for Taco Bell.
Federal and state health officials are investigating Taco Bell to see if it played a role in one of the largest US outbreaks of a parasitic intestinal illness called, wait, I have the scientific name here, explosive diarrhea.
I'm sorry, that's not it.
It's cyclosporiasis.
The CDC is looking into four states that have multiple overlapping clusters, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky.
But there's reports of cases that have spread across at least 34 states.
Now, as a precaution,
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