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Comment by tomalpha | Hacker News Reader

I love this quote, but to be fair it's immediately followed by:

    A team of palaeontologists were brought in for a closer look.

Which, assuming it was done by Rutland County Council, is actually pretty cool.

(Edit: where "it" is the act of bringing the team in from Manchester Uni)

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Sometimes small towns get excited about things like this and do a much better job than you might think for a municipality of their size.

If you're ever tragically lost and end up in Shoshone, California (population 31), the tiny one-room town museum is an absolute treasure if you're into dinosaurs. It's been a few years since I was last there, but IIRC, the tiny town museum had to go to court to get its largest dinosaur find back from some big California university that tried to keep it.

See also: The Franklin Mineral Museum in Franklin, New Jersey. An amazing place for rockhounds. Especially if you're into ones that glow.

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