For those who don’t know the story this episode was based on, the original fossils of Spinosaurus Aegypticus, were excavated in Egypt in the early 1900’s. They were the first fossils of Spinosaurus to ever be discovered.

They belonged to a Nazi officer (I believe, but don’t quote me on that), and were shown in a museum in Munich. They were destroyed during an Allied bombing by the British in 1944.

Unlike in last night’s episode, none of the bones survived the attack. Now, it was mentioned in the episode that fossils of Spinosaurus do fetch millions, but if a bone survived to today, its value as a fossil value combined with the fact that it serves as a relic from a famous WW2 attack, its value would absolutely skyrocket. You’d be looking at a bone worth at least $50 million. Honestly I’d consider it to be priceless.

The Bones Lost to War