What Are My Fossil Rights Worth?

How do fossil rights influence ranch land values? In this episode, Nate Murphy shares his experiences as a dinosaur excavator and fossil preparations expert. He contracts with private landowners to locate and excavate fossils. He then prepares the fossils in his lab in Billings MT – Dino Lab – for museums worldwide.Nate Murphy became known as the “People’s Paleontologist”  in the 1990s. He discovered the world’s largest carnivorous dinosaur in Patagonia, South America. And when he found the best-preserved fossil in the world, Leonardo, he was featured in Newsweek, NationalGeographic.com, New York Times and the 2004 Guinness Book of Record.