Washing, brushing and varnishing fossils—all standard conservation treatments used by many fossil hunters and museum curators alike—vastly reduces the chances of recovering ancient DNA.

化石清洗、刷洗和涂清漆——所有这些许多化石猎人和博物馆馆长都采用的标准保护措施——极大地降低了恢复古代 DNA 的机会。

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Fossil hunters have unearthed the bones of an elephant believed to be 500,000 years old.

化石寻找者们挖掘出了一头被认为有50万年之久的大象遗骨。

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Fossil hunters first glimpsed the new species in 1992 when a tooth belonging to Ardipithecus was spotted among pebbles in the desert near Aramis.

化石猎人首次得以瞥见这个新物种是在1992年，当时他们在阿拉米斯村附近沙漠的砾石中发现了一颗属于阿迪猿系猿人的牙齿。

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They argue that it drives up prices, encourages fossil hunters who don't follow scientific standards and deprives the public of its natural-history heritage.

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This shift of perception is causing fossil hunters to take a renewed look at crocodiles, dinosaurs and the similarities and differences between them.

ECONOMIST: Or, rather, the dinosaur and the crocodile

At the time of Mr Larsen's imprisonment, many people felt that the government was stretching the law to make an example of him, thus discouraging other fossil hunters from going anywhere near federal land.

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