Salomon Aaron

You need to understand what is the kind of anticipated or the usual condition of that particular type of specimen.

So some specimens are usually discovered much more complete than others.

So you may buy, for example, I sold a nanosaurus skeleton, which is a small Jurassic skeleton, about a meter and a half, 150 million years old.

They're usually discovered very incomplete because they're small, the bones are brittle, there are very few skulls that have ever been found.

If you have a nanosaurus skeleton that might have 50% of the bones represented and some of the feet, the claws there, then that's amazing.

But 50% of a larger herbivore with kind of thick, durable bones like a Triceratops is actually not as interesting or as exciting.

And also, it doesn't matter how many bones are there, but actually what are the key bones?

You know, what are you looking for in value or in kind of historical interest?

So T. rex skull.

Let's say you buy a T-Rex skull, but all the teeth are not original.

That's a pretty crazy thing to do.

Or a Triceratops skull, which is iconic because it's the three-horned dinosaur.

It's got these amazing horns that descend out of its skull.

It doesn't matter how many parts, how much of the frill you have or how much of the kind of lower jaw you have.

What you want is you want the you need those horns to be there.

And so what I think will happen over time is that holistically people will look at dinosaur fossils and say, I don't care.

It's not about is the branding is important, but it's more about, you know, what am I buying exactly?

You know.

forgetting how the industry used to work in the past and actually kind of taking a much more measured, slower, deeper kind of investigatory kind of analysis as to what's complete and what's not complete, what's interesting and what's not complete.

Sorry that I give you very long answers to each of your questions.