The dramatic reveal of Stan’s new home is the latest chapter in the saga of one of the world’s best known T. rex skeletons
in Cairo, and the Sharjah Natural History and Botanical Museum, located in a neighboring U.A.E. sheikhdom.
Dedicated paleontology facilities are also rare across the Middle East and North Africa, though researchers there have worked hard to preserve the region’s fossil record. In Morocco a team including National Geographic Explorer Nizar Ibrahim has spent years amassing a fossil collection at Casablanca’s Hassan II University, with the eventual hope of seeding a Moroccan natural history museum. In 2010 Egypt’s Mansoura UniversityThe Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi has lofty scientific goals.
As Abu Dhabi’s new museum positions itself as a repository for important specimens, its leaders also assume an ethical responsibility to consider the effects that expensive purchases could have on the rest of the marketplace, says Erin Thompson, an expert on the antiquities trade at the City College of New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Some wealthy museums in the U.S.
For Pete Larson, the Black Hills Institute’s president, the announcement of Stan’s new home brings one overriding feeling: relief.
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