Worth a read. I am not going to speak for Mexicans but I can only imagine the frustration.
You don’t have to take a fossil out of the country to make it inaccessible to its people. This is shady af and that the journal is backing them up says it all.
As an Egyptian I know what it’s like to have parts of your heritage taken out and then only a fraction of your family can see them.
Don’t tell me they are safer elsewhere.
A- that’s racist
B- spinosaurus 🙃
I want to be clear. Antiquities =\= fossils and natural heritage BUT Egypt has been asking for Nefertiti’s bust back for DECADES. At the time it was taken out it was illegal.
Some of you may want more context as to how "normal" paleo fieldwork became a collapsing museum rescue mission AND case study in how to #DecolonizePaleontology
📸:Mariem Hbaieb
First, I'd like to shout out @nytimes and @asher_elbein for giving us a public platform for this.
This article has been in the works since January 2020!!
The fact that it seems to coincide with certain ethically dubious fossils being published recently is a coincidence but also emphasizes how often this happens.