These rising prices spell trouble for professional paleontologists. The more fossils are worth, the more people are interested in collecting and selling them. And in today's booming economy, more people can afford to buy them. Students gaze at a full-size cast of a Tyrannosaurus rex on display at Boston's Museum of Science. The skeleton, found in 1990 near Faith, S.D., is the largest and most complete T. rex ever discovered.
Scientists do see a distinction, however, between corporate money and individual bidders.
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