Not to be overly negative about accomplishments in paleontology, perhaps the most underfunded science with the biggest and best story to tell, but it is in the never-ending quest for money, that the hunt for headlines rests. Ever since the travesty of the seizure of the T. rex "Sue" by and the miserable persecution of "Sue's" discoverers, the Larsons of South Dakota, has the quest for fossil hunting found a comfotable and rational basis of functionality. Funding has shifted to the bloated commercial market as a result of the auctioning of "Sue" at an obscene cost in a union of PR intersts by McDonalds and Disney, joining with the "glory" interest of the Field Museum. Forevermore, money has dictated fossil discoveries, and spilled over to always underfunded paleontology scientific entities. Needing to scratch for dollars, these have attempted to take out advertise the commercial interests with one "spectacular" discovery after another. Of course this has diminished the value of "spectacular."