Tracy Alloway

Someone buys a painting and thinks of it as an investment, not just something nice to hang on their wall.

Are we going to start to see the same thing with dinosaur bones?

Wait, can I ask a question before you go into that more generally?

Do bones from carnivores seem to have more value than bones from herbivores?

Venture capital for velociraptors.

This would be the ultimate risk for the asset class.

Yeah, right.

Now we have new supplies of dinosaur bones.

I'm certain they would not be as plentiful as to be in the Bloomberg office in our lifetimes.

I'm sure of that, at least.

Thank you so much.

Yeah, and we're going to be in London in May, so we might actually take you up on the offer.

Joe, that was a really fun conversation.

There is something to that final point from Sal, this idea that there is a universality of interest in dinosaurs, right?

It feels like everyone, if you have any sort of humanity in you, has gone through a dinosaur stage when you were a kid.

Dinosaurs are forever.

I think there are still some environmental issues.

We probably should have talked about this a little bit, but there are still some environmental concerns about large-scale digs.

I know the mammoth bone industry or mammoth tusk industry in Russia has been something of an issue, so that could be also something to think about.

But I do think like crowding in that private capital, I mean, clearly has led to some interesting discoveries already, which Sal was talking about, this idea that they discovered a new species.