# @natgeo on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/ClMuBkUpTpt
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/1146271-natgeo-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/c85eaa4212.jpg
- **Posted:** 2022-11-20T22:00:13.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Geographic (@NatGeo) — https://gondola.cc/NatGeo

## Caption

Photo by gabrielegalimbertiphoto and Juri De Luca | Fossils of long-extinct creatures aren’t just for museums. Today they’re in homes and businesses, as wealthy collectors indulge in a controversial hobby. Here, 11-year-old Luke Phipps sits atop a Triceratops fossil—still in a plaster “jacket” used for carefully transporting a fossil from the field to a lab—with Chris Morrow, owner of CK Preparations, a commercial fossil company in Montana. Luke found the fossil while digging with his father, Clayton Phipps, a rancher and amateur paleontologist known as the dinosaur cowboy. #dinosaurs #dino #dinosaur #collection #triceratops

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## Tags

dinosaur, collection, triceratops, dino, dinosaurs

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