YSK that the Museum of the Earth, one of the world's best scientific museum, desperately needs help. It owns exceptionally rare dinosaurs fossils and the collection could be sold

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/science/museum-of-the-earth-ithaca-fossils.html?unlocked_article_code=1._k8.IAnp.AnqrEJ_kHHIY

This is sad.

https://www.museumoftheearth.org/

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Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 239d (7 replies)

OP created their account 47 minutes ago and has started the usual mass posting.

This is going to be another self deleting spam account.

linatio1@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 239d (3 replies)
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Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 239d (2 replies)

I mean seems to fit the pattern of such accounts to a T but alright we shall see.

I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 239d (1 reply)

Lol. He already deleted his comment

n0respect@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 239d

upvoting their comment just for the irony they did

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 238d (2 replies)

What are the accounts for? Do they try to sell something just before deleting?

Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 237d (1 reply)

I'm not entirely sure. The best guess I have on that is, they're pushing a narrative or shilling specific websites like nytimes (which all of these accounts I've seen so far have shared from very heavily).

Someone else mentioned it could be a person that got salty that they got banned from some communities and are having a shitfit making a bunch of accounts and deleting them before they get banned again.

TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 237d

I salute them for helping improve the Fediverse’s resilience.

homes@piefed.world · 16 pts · 239d (3 replies)

Sold to whom? Who else could be trusted with these artifacts?

This very much feels like some kind of bullshit advertising to get the public on board with an obvious scam.

Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 239d (2 replies)

Private collectors

homes@piefed.world · 8 pts · 239d (1 reply)

Obviously, but my comment was intended to expose the inherent flaws

And, really, private collectors make up only a tiny bit of a market. Most of the world are perverts. Be realistic here…

Cethin@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 237d

But you could be a pervert in your very own dinosaur exhibit...

SuperEars@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 239d

Paging Joe Burrow