1.   Talking to Stan about fossil hunting makes you aware of the passion that drives him on.

2.   Fossil hunting is a costly business.

3.   And the fossil hunting has been especially rewarding in recent years in the relatively unexplored Patagonia.

4.   But others, including Dr. John Ostrom of Yale University, have expressed uneasiness about what they regard as the overly restrictive regulation of fossil hunting.

5.   But this sale raises some troubling issues for the future of fossil hunting and of scientific research.

6.   Commercialization of fossil hunting can be useful to the extent that it encourages the detection and preservation of specimens that would otherwise go uncollected.

7.   Dr. Alan Walker, a paleoanthropologist at Pennsylvania State University who specializes in human fossil hunting in Kenya, said he agreed with the interpretation of the Georgian skulls.

8.   During the Cold War, Russian and Polish scientists continued fossil hunting there.

9.   In the last sections visitors see a replica of a dig site where they can get the feel of fossil hunting.