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T. Rex Fossil “Gus” Sells for Record $50.1 Million
7+ hour, 40+ min ago (165+ words) A 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil nicknamed “Gus” sold for a record-breaking $50.1 million at a Sotheby’s auction in New York. The sale makes it the most expensive dinosaur fossil ever auctioned, surpassing the previous record of $44.6 million set by the stegosaurus…...
Rare T. rex fossil sells for record $50.1 million at auction
3+ hour, 47+ min ago (42+ words) Yahoo A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton from South Dakota has become the world's most expensive fossil sold at auction, after fetching a record $50,130,000 at Sotheby's in New York Tuesday....
South Dakota T. rex fetched millions, and scientists fear a private buyer will lock it away
1+ hour, 49+ min ago (398+ words) As Sotheby's prepared to auction off a giant T. rex skeleton in New York, scientists warned that the fossils ending up in a private collection could harm future research efforts. The T. rex skeleton, named Gus after the late South Dakota rancher…...
Edelman Fossil Museum Tribute to Dr. Alan Grant & Jurassic Park
4+ hour, 3+ min ago (127+ words) njfamily.com Edelman Fossil Museum Tribute to Dr. Alan Grant & Jurassic Park Fans of the Jurassic Park movies can honor the late actor Sam Neill, who passed away on July 13, and his iconic character of Dr. Alan Grant. It’s a…...
Rare T. Rex skeleton sells for $50.1 million
2+ hour, 43+ min ago (18+ words) CBS News Rare T. Rex skeleton sells for $50.1 million...
Mystery buyer bids US$50.1 million for ‘Gus’ the dinosaur
8+ hour, 41+ min ago (339+ words) A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil billed as one of the world’s largest and most complete specimens was sold for a record US$50.1 million on Tuesday to a mystery bidder. Sotheby’s said the 67-million-year-old fossil, nicknamed “Gus,” is the most expensive set…...
Here’s how much a person bid to buy a T. rex fossil nicknamed ‘Gus’ for at an auction
6+ hour, 33+ min ago (511+ words) Sotheby’s said the 67-million-year-old fossil, nicknamed “Gus,” is now the most expensive set of dinosaur bones ever auctioned off, besting the almost $45 million price tag for a nearly complete stegosaurus sold by the same New York auction house in 2024. The…...
Scientists found the oldest fossil vomit ever, and it is older than the dinosaurs
6+ hour, 31+ min ago (342+ words) Finding a fossil is always a small event. Whatever its nature, it is a valuable clue that helps us reconstruct ecosystems that vanished long ago. Still, some fossils clearly have greater scientific value than others. The older fossils are, the…...
The Economics of Extinction: Inside the Record-Breaking 50 M — Weddings
6+ hour, 23+ min ago (484+ words) To analyze the mechanics of this market, one must dismantle the variables that transformed 183 fossilized bones into a $50 million commodity. The global market for high-value paleontological assets is severely supply-constrained by sovereign legal frameworks. In jurisdictions such as Mongolia, Brazil,…...
Modularity: Insufficient for and Unexplained by Evolution
4+ hour, 18+ min ago (288+ words) At his blog, Construction Physics, Brain Potter, drawing on work by economist Brian Arthur, draws a connection between modularity in technology and evolution, concluding: Potter is drawing an analogy between modularity in technology and the genetic recombination in sexual reproduction....