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I Tried to Find Out if the Dinosaur Tooth I Bought Online Was Real. It Didn’t Go as Expected

The author explores fossil authenticity and highlights ethical concerns including unsafe working conditions for 50,000 Moroccan fossil workers, according to a 2018 study.

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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those who covet them, the present is in some ways much more complicated. I always wanted to own a fossil, and once the algorithm picked up on that desire, ads flooded my Instagram feed. It then became impossible to resist the thrill …

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WAAY-TV broke the news in Huntsville, United States on Friday, August 15, 2025.
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