David Cain of Middletown, Ohio is selling off his late father’s massive collection of fossils that takes up several rooms in an unmarked storefront. Cain says the most valuable items are 200 megalodon teeth, and a dozen dinosaur egg nests. He’d like to get around $250,000 for the whole lot. The challenge, says Dale Gnidovec, collection manager at Ohio State University’s Orton Geological Museum who checked out a video of the collection, is that what he saw is “readily available at any large fossil shop and many of them have been ‘enhanced’ by the craftsman. It is also very depressing to see so many fossils that have been stripped of their scientific value by not having exact locality and geologic information.” Interestingly, Cain is selling the fossils so he can grow his own collection of historical juggling props. It’s apparently the third-largest in the world. Cain is a professional juggler whose act is called “Juggler for Jesus.”
“Juggler has hands full with dad’s fossil collection” (Cincinnati.com, thanks, Charles Pescovitz!)