And this isn’t a fringe issue. Since the blockbuster auction of “Sue” the T. rex in 1997 for $8.36 million, T. rex fossils have become the Picassos of the paleontology world—high-status ...

Carr conducted an exhaustive review of public museum inventories, auction records ... public access. T. rex fossils have also made headlines. “Stan,” the famous skeleton auctioned in 2020 ...