Fossil hunter digs up more controversy

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081005/NEWS01/810050304/1002/news01

This summer, fossil hunter Nate Murphy and his crew carefully unearthed three stegosaurus skeletons discovered
on a ranch near Grass Range.

Unlike his past dinosaur digs — including the one that unearthed Malta's famed mummy duckbill, Leonardo —
Murphy's finds aren't destined for a Montana museum.

The nonprofit Judith River Dinosaur Foundation, which is affiliated with Malta's new Great Plains Dinosaur Museum,
cut ties with Murphy in July 2007, after state and federal agents began investigating him for allegedly stealing dinosaurs.
Last month, he was charged in Phillips County District Court with stealing a turkey-sized raptor.

However, through his private company, the Judith River Dinosaur Institute, Murphy continues to recruit
volunteer scientists along with amateur fossil fans who shell out $1,600 each to spend a week digging by his side.

Why are they worth so much - they are only 6000 years old. It's not like they were millions of years old or something.

was the home of a prodigious number of creatures we've never seen.

Here's the link to the Judith River Dinosaur Institute website, mentioned in the article:
http://www.montanadinosaurdigs.com/discover.php

Be sure to check the amazing specimen links, with great photos, at the bottom. The first one is approximately 77 million years old.

Thanks for posting this article.