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Scientists Warn Against Auction of Rare Tyrannosaurus Fossil
2+ hour, 54+ min ago (183+ words) A highly complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, known as Gus, is set to be auctioned at Sotheby's with a valuation exceeding $30 million. This auction is raising alarms among scientists who advocate for the preservation of such significant finds for research rather…...
“One in a Million” Find: Soft Tissue Discovered in 450-Million-Year-Old Fossil
13+ hour, 9+ min ago (927+ words) A rare 450-million-year-old fossil with preserved soft tissue is revealing how some of Earth’s earliest reef animals lived and evolved. More than 450 million years ago, long before dinosaurs appeared or forests covered the continents, Earth’s shallow seas were already filled…...
Sotheby's Auctions Massive Tyrannosaurus Rex Fossil Named Gus in New York
2+ hour, 56+ min ago (988+ words) Sotheby's will auction a highly complete, 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil known as Gus in New York on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, amid intensifying debate over the private sale of historically significant scientific specimens. The prehistoric skeleton, discovered on a cattle ranch in…...
Forgotten bone in a drawer unlocks Antarctica’s first dinosaur discovery ever
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (495+ words) In December 1985, British Antarctic Survey geologist Mike Thomson collected an unusual fossilized bone on the Ulu Peninsula of James Ross Island. Thomson recorded the find simply as a “vertebra of large reptile” in his field notebook, unable to identify it…...
Ancient fossil may reveal first-ever 'right-handedness' in the animal kingdom
1+ hour, 53+ min ago (972+ words) Fossils of Spriggina floundersi from South Australia. Because the fossils preserve mirror-image impressions of the animals, a leftward bend in the rock indicates the animal turned right in life. (CREDIT: Scott Evans / AMNH) Spriggina floundersi was only a few centimeters…...
Do fish have necks? New research changes the answer
7+ hour, 51+ min ago (1100+ words) Fish and amphibians have a kind of neck after all, according to new research that redraws one of the oldest lines in animal anatomy. Scientists who filmed trout and salamanders feeding found the animals bend sections of the backbone to…...
T-rex skeleton tipped to fetch eye-watering sum
2+ hour, 40+ min ago (161+ words) One of the largest and most complete T-rex skeletons ever unearthed is going under the hammer in New York, with an eye-watering price tag that could shatter auction records. Nicknamed Gus, the 67-million-year-old specimen has an estimated sale price of…...
Scientists may have finally cracked the mystery of why T. rex had such tiny arms - AOL
13+ hour, 49+ min ago (563+ words) A new study claims to have solved the long-standing mystery of why Tyrannosaurus rex had such disproportionately small arms. A Royal Society research paper published May 20 suggests that T. rex, which averaged more than 40 feet long with arms stretching just 3 feet,…...
Always Trust the Science? Researchers Learn Their Woolly Mammoth Backbone Actually Belonged to Whale
8+ hour, 8+ min ago (506+ words) “Science” is not a monolithic set of truths that the general public should only eagerly await to be bestowed upon them by elites who supposedly know better. A more honest appraisal of science recognizes its limitations, its missteps, and its…...
Pterosaur wings seem to have been much different than we thought
9+ hour, 26+ min ago (867+ words) Every pterosaur you’ve seen wears roughly the same wings, whether in a museum, on a screen, or across a textbook page. They are long and leathery, swept to a point, and stretched from one long finger to the ankle. That…...