Editing Archaeoraptor (section)

===Traveling exhibit===
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In 2001 Stephen and Sylvia Czerkas compiled a traveling exhibit containing 34 other Chinese fossils. The show is titled ''Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origin of Flight''. The [[San Diego Natural History Museum]] paid a set fee to the Dinosaur Museum to display this show in 2004. When the show opened, Dr. [[Ji Qiang]] told reporters from ''Nature'' that about a dozen of the fossils had left China illegally. Ji arranged with the Czerkases to assign accession numbers to three of the most valuable specimens, thus formally adding them to the collection of the [[Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences]] in Beijing, although they remain in the possession of the Czerkases. Stephen Czerkas denied Ji's assertion that the fossils were illegal. Sylvia Czerkas told the journal ''Nature'' that she had worked out an agreement with officials of Liaoning Province in 2001 to borrow the fossils and that they were to be repatriated in 2007. Through March 2009, however, the show was scheduled for the [[Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science]] in California. According to ''Nature'', the Czerkases refused requests to make the officials from Liaoning available for an interview.<ref name="Dalton, Rex 2004. pp. 5"/>

Many scientists consider it unethical to work on fossils if there is any chance that they have been smuggled, and many disregard privately owned fossils altogether.<ref name="Hopkin2007">Hopkin, Michael (2007) "Paleontology journal will 'fuel black market'" ''Nature'' (news) 445:234-235 18 January 2007 {{doi|10.1038/445234b}}</ref> Some professionals feel that private collectors put fossils in private hands where science may not be able to access or study them. Some believe that private collectors may damage important fossils, subject them to forgery, and obscure their origins or evidence about their ages. Illegal dealers have also participated in and may encourage, governmental corruption. Another philosophy argues that if scientists could bend their ethics and agree to publish on important private fossils, this would encourage private holders to make them available for study.<ref name="Hopkin2007"/>

The fossil most recently appeared in an exhibition in Wollaton Hall, near Nottingham, titled [[Ground Shakers To Feathered Flyers|Dinosaurs of China: Ground Shakers to Feathered Flyers]], where it was exhibited along with fossils of ''Yanoris'' and ''Microraptor'', its main components.<ref name="Primary Times 2017">{{cite web | title=Dinosaurs of China: Ground Shakers to Feathered Flyers | website=Primary Times | date=2017-11-01 | url=https://www.primarytimes.co.uk/nottinghamshire/listings/dinosaurs-of-china-ground-shakers-to-feathered-flyers-122239 | access-date=2019-06-24}}</ref>