Scientists who took things to universities did the world a favour. The government had no serious plans for the fossils and over time everything would have been stolen by tourists.
I want to refine that to scientists taking things to display publicly - and in the same country.
Today's borders aren't yesterdays borders. How should we decide what's fair?
Or should relics stay with their ethnic creators, along racial lines?
That works. We seem to be zeroing in.
Tons of these in private hands probably got thrown away as boring old rocks.
And why would same country matter for something this old?
It would matter to the host scientists studying their regional phenomenon.