EARTH SCIENCE
FOSSILS
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Question
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You can collect them and bury them so no one knows you have one.
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If you find one you must report it to the government and a museum.
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Keep it and sell it to the government
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You must keep it so that it doesn’t leave Alberta.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The most important thing to do if you find what you believe is a fossil or an artifact is to leave it where you found it. When scientists study these items, we need to know exactly where they came from so that we can learn everything possible about them.
Detailed explanation-2: -Collected fossils remain public property and are placed with museums, universities or other public institutions for study and exhibition. You may collect reasonable quantities of common invertebrate fossils such as mollusks and trilobites, but this must be for personal use, and the fossils may not be bartered or sold.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the United States, the fossilized remains of the mighty creatures that lived in eons past are subject to an age-old law-”finders keepers.” In America, if you find a dinosaur in your backyard, that is now your dinosaur.
Detailed explanation-4: -Fossils give us a useful insight into the history of life on Earth. They can teach us where life and humans came from, show us how the Earth and our environment have changed through geological time, and how continents, now widely separated, were once connected.