Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: In the West, there's always been stuff in the ground that can you make you rich - gold, silver, oil. And now - dinosaur bones. For-profit companies have started hunting the hills for fossils. Stacey Vanek Smith of our PLANET MONEY podcast reports on the booming business of bones.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)STACEY VANEK SMITH, BYLINE: Randy Rees lives on a cattle ranch in northeastern Montana. The only way to get to his house is a long drive down a really rough dirt road. One day about two years ago, he saw a couple of guys driving down that road.RANDY REES: A guy showed up with a fruit basket.SMITH: They had a fruit basket?R. REES: Yeah. (Laughter).SMITH: And what did he say?R. REES: Asked if they could go out and look around for fossils, I guess.SMITH: Look around for fossils. Rees is this really modest, quiet guy. They offered him $5,000 to look around, and if they found something, Rees would get a 10 percent cut of the
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