id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-001836 Chronicle of Higher Education: Rising Prices for Rare Meteorites and Fossils Hamper Academic Research | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 2368 107 60 But the $8.4-million sale of the most complete and best-preserved specimen of a T. rex more than a year ago has fueled a belief in rural communities across America that dinosaur fossils are being sold for millions of dollars. During last summer’s excavation season, for example, he and his team of volunteers went back to 30 sites containing dinosaur fossils that they had found the year before. cache/news-001836.html txt/news-001836.txt