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Palaeontology: School of rock

Native Americans want to claim fossil resources found on their lands. Rex Dalton looks at how tribes and palaeontologists are working together to avoid bitter ownership disputes.

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Dalton, R. Palaeontology: School of rock. Nature 455, 858–860 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/455858a

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