Selling what appears to be a small T-rex skeleton to a private buyer will likely make such research impossible to complete, and that’s a frustrating reality for researchers who are desperate for ...

Thomas Carr, an associate professor of biology at Carthage College, found that there are now more scientifically valuable T. rex specimens in private or commercial ownership than in public museums and ...

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 ...

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