Salomon Aaron

You know, you need to be able to excavate at a certain time of the year.

It requires a lot of manpower.

It's a financial risk because, you know, there are dinosaur explorers that will go, you know, a whole dig season looking for something and come up with nothing.

And as a result, you know, what's happened is as the market has exploded over the past 10 years, it's becoming much more financially feasible for people to kind of

look for dinosaurs and to bring things to the market.

So that kind of the rising prices are hugely increasing the supply of dinosaur fossils, because it may have been in the past if someone had discovered kind of elements of a particular species or a specimen, they'd say, okay, based on the numbers, this isn't worth me spending the rest of my dig season trying to uncover the rest of this.

But as the numbers go up, it all becomes more feasible.

Okay, so the rules relating to how and where you find a dinosaur fossil vary dependent on country.

We only deal in American dinosaur fossils because the rules are very clear.

If you find a dinosaur fossil on private land, you can legally sell it as long as you have the permission of all parties, the landowner, the dinosaur hunter, etc.,

In other countries, it's more shady.

They might have exceptions.

You might be able to get export permits, but you know, I'd not recommend anybody to kind of get involved or kind of do that.

I just suggest focus on American dinosaur fossils.

So to talk you through the process or how it works with us.

As a gallery, we're a retail gallery, we will work with landowners and dinosaur explorers who will kind of go out, you know, in Wyoming or in Montana or South Dakota or wherever that may be, look for dinosaur fossils and call us or email us when they have kind of images of bones as soon as they're discovered.

And the way it works is in some cases, it's the landowner who is entering into agreements with a dinosaur hunter, for example, to split profit.

In some cases, it's kind of commercial dinosaur dealers who will acquire ranches or land hoping to kind of, for the purpose of finding dinosaur fossils on that property.

And least often is you might buy something from a private collector who bought it decades ago on the market himself.

We very rarely do that because the rules relating to provenance have changed so drastically that it's unlikely that somebody who offered a dinosaur for sale a long period of time decades ago will have all of the paperwork we would want to see today to feel comfortable with being able to offer it to privates or to museums.