Slate Money - Money Talks: The Dinosaur Economy

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Sep 1, 202636:12News & Politics

One-hundred-million-year-old bones are so hot right now. In this Money Talks , Felix Salmon is joined by Salomon Aaron, director of an antiquities gallery specializing in fossils, to explain everything you ever wanted to...

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