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A Collector Shows Off His Dinosaurs

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Collector Ralph Wunsch shows off his collection of dinosaur fossils, including a Diplodocus and an Allosaurus that are 155 million years old and were excavated in Wyoming in 2016. Wunsch thinks of dinosaur skeletons as a similar to fine art – able to be displayed in museums and in private homes and collections.

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♪♪ -Okay.

Welcome to my house.

Please come in.

♪♪ ♪♪ -As much as possible, I've always tried to contact collectors who are clearly eclectic... ♪♪ ...collectors who were open to new things, collectors who wanted to explore a new world.

♪♪ -My name is Ralph Wunsch.

I started a business 10 years ago called MetroDeal.

It's about online selling coupons.

And I live here in this house with my son, Michael.

♪♪ This is, I think, one of my favorite pieces in my collection.

The dinosaurs, they are 155 million years old.

They're from the Cretaceous period.

And one is the Diplodocus, the tall one, which is a herbivore, and one is a Allosaurus, which is a carnivore.

And they've been excavated in Wyoming in 2016.

♪♪ It's always very curious about dinosaur fossils, because when I was a little child, there have been, like, different fossils always displayed in the museums.

And I've been always kind of intrigued that, you know, fossils are same as paintings, so you can have them both in the museum, you can both have them at home.

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