Chapter 1487 - The Largest Financing in History (2)
A thick stack of documents was placed on the table in front of Han Xuan, he didn't look at these first, he stood up and turned around, looking up at the display shelf behind him.
In recent years, it has become popular to decorate offices with prehistoric relics, rare fossils and amber are popular collectibles in the market, and the price has risen several times in a row.
In the first two years, I was able to buy a complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton fossil for hundreds of thousands of dollars, but now I can't even buy a leg, and the reason for these changes is probably due to the emergence of the science fiction movie "Jurassic Park", which successfully made the magical species that disappeared for tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years re-enter the sight of many people.
Last year, "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" was released, which once again caused a dinosaur boom, and the discerning little speculators hoarded a batch of high-quality fossils at low prices, and then at a special auction, they successfully used sky-high prices to stir up the market.
Prior to this, the value of prehistoric collectibles was far underestimated, and they were actually less surviving than antiques, but because there were not many people who liked them, they were niche collectibles, so their value never rose.
The items on the shelf in front of him were all collected with the help of the antique intermediary who sold Han Xuan's Tyrannosaurus rex fossils at that time, and they were all high-quality products without exception, and the prices were not low.
Among them is a very complete and beautiful ammonite fossil, which is very well preserved, about 300 million years old, an extinct marine invertebrate, like the modern nautilus, which reaches a diameter of 140 centimeters, which is quite rare, and lived between the Devonian (400 million years) and the Cretaceous (65 million years).
Next to it, the fossil of a trilobite more than 60 centimeters long is even older, and like the ammonite fossils, it can also represent the unknown ancient age.
They have evolved into many different species over the years, and to this day, we can still see the shadow of trilobites five or six hundred million years ago in some species of horseshoe crabs or head shrimps, and the short history of mankind seems too insignificant compared to them.
Darwin once put forward a hypothesis that the random variation of organisms is the material basis of biological evolution, and the scientific community has now formed a basic consensus that perhaps all living things on the earth have one or several common ancestors.
Many species that have disappeared from the earth have not actually become extinct, but have become other forms, such as various birds and chickens that people often eat, which may have evolved from some dinosaurs tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years ago.
This conjecture is based on the similarity of the skeletal structure of dinosaurs and birds, and the DNA sequences of dinosaurs and birds are also very similar, with a fit of 80%, which provides a sufficient theoretical basis for proving that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds.
Archaeologists have also found fossils of a bird-like "Archaeopteryx", a hairy dinosaur.
Now this speculation was even more obvious in front of Han Xuan's eyes, because he reached out and picked up an amber and accidentally found that an ancient nestling was sealed inside.
To be precise, the amber only has the claws of a bird, some bones and some feather-like objects, and the amber is about the size of Han Xuan's fist, and through imagination, you can imagine the state of struggle when a six-centimeter chick was sealed inside countless years ago.
This surprised him a little, and asked Trump, "How old is this amber?"
It seems to be a bit historical, there are many insects that are sealed in amber, and I have never heard of birds that are sealed in amber, except for modern artificial ornaments......"
Trump's company is here, and his home is also on the roof of this building, Han Xuan once went to his house as a guest, and he originally specialized in real estate business, so the decoration work was handed over to him to help.
"I remember that after the workers installed them, they also left a small book of introduction materials, which had a bit of value, and when I sent someone to clean them, I let people watch them, and usually no one could come in on this floor.
Wait, I'll ask the secretary to help find ......."
Before his secretary came, Han Xuan found the booklet on the table first.
Including furniture, there are detailed descriptions, and those fossils and the like are accurate to the place of origin, and the price is also marked.
Velocidal dragon skull, triangular dragon skull, Fengshen winged dragon skull, etc., there are quite a lot of surviving ones, and you can buy them with a little effort and money, and this peculiar amber belongs to a unique existence, and there may not be a second one in the world.
Looking at the introduction on the information, I learned that this amber was produced in Myanmar and was circulated in the market as ordinary amber, and was later discovered by a discerning tourist, brought back to the United States and sold for 9,000 US dollars, and the store was more discerning, and finally sold it to Han Xuan through an intermediary at a price of 700,000 US dollars.
According to the appraisal, it has a history of 99 million years, and considering the error, it is very likely that it is hundreds of millions of years old, and the degree of cherishing is far beyond Han Xuan's expectations.
Amber provides humans with an advantage over other things to explore the scene of the past, but the size of the objects it can wrap is limited, so the ancient amber wrapped in vertebrates is extremely rare, and its value is far higher than the snail amber that Han Xuan bought before.
Holding it, looking through it, I thought it was very interesting, handed this amber to Anya, and said: "This thing is amazing, paleontologists will go crazy when they encounter it, I have never heard of it, where are the remains of birds tens of millions of years ago preserved, it can be of great help to the study of ancient birds."
If you invite a few experts in this field to come, with the current level of technology, you may be able to restore the bird's previous appearance through the clues in the amber. ”
Anya didn't understand this, but it was amazing to see the claws of the bird inside.
Time has worn out too many things, and some people even believe that there is not only human civilization on the earth, maybe dinosaurs also have intelligence and civilization.
A screenwriter in Hollywood, it is from this aspect of imagination, wrote the script of the TV series "Dinosaur Empire", Dimen Pictures has confirmed that it will pay for the filming, the plot contains a large number of special effects, is expected to invest up to 100 million US dollars, will be in charge of post-production by Industrial Light and Magic Special Effects Company......
The general managers of each branch in New York received a notice from Secretary Dawson early and rushed here to wait for the arrival of the little boss, and now they are entering this office one after another to greet Han Xuan, Anya, and Rump.
Through the side glass, you can see part of the cityscape of the lower town, and you can also see the towering spiral building in the distance, and the Tump Building was briefly the tallest building in the world in history.
Han Xuan took the black tea made by the company's assistant, thanked her with a smile, and then said: "Sit down, many people are meeting for the first time, but I have seen your files, and my personal ability is quite good."
Please wait, drink tea first, I'll talk after reading these documents, don't be restrained, the voice won't affect me......"