The New York Times has a piece this morning about dinosaur tourism in Argentinian Patagonia. Basically the gist of the article is that Jorge Calvo, an Argentinian geologist & paleontologist, is encouraging tourists to get involved in excavating dinosaur fossils as a way of paying the bills and getting the beasts out of the ground. Not everyone agrees with the approach, and the article quotes another Argentinian paleontologist who call's Calvo's tourist-extracted fossils "hostages."

It's also accompanied by a slideshow of photos.

Labels: dinosaurs, fossils, south america, tourism