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T. rex named Gus fetches record $50.1 million at auction
A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton named Gus just became the most expensive fossil ever sold at auction, fetching $5
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🇺🇸 United States
T. rex fossil named Gus sells for record $50.1 million in New York
A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton named Gus just became the most expensive fossil ever sold at auction. The price w
🇺🇸 United States
T. rex tooth still stuck in dinosaur skull 66 million years later
A dinosaur skull on display in Montana still has a Tyrannosaurus rex tooth jammed into its face, frozen in pla
🌍 Dominican Republic
Ancient Bees Used Mammal Tooth Sockets as Tiny Nurseries 20,000 Years Ago
A stunning fossil discovery shows that ancient bees used the empty tooth sockets of mammal bones as tiny nests
🇧🇷 Brazil
This ancient crocodile relative walked on two legs in Brazil
A crocodile relative that walked on two legs. That is what paleontologists have uncovered in southern Brazil.
🇧🇪 Belgium
Lost Megalodon Vertebrae Confirm 80 Foot Giant Shark
A set of megalodon vertebrae that vanished for over a century has resurfaced in Belgium, finally confirming th
🇦🇷 Argentina
Fish eating raptor fossil in Argentina links to China
A newly identified dinosaur from Argentina ate fish and belonged to a family of raptors previously known only
🇿🇦 South Africa
1.8 Million Year Old Fire Use Found in South African Cave
The oldest known evidence of humans deliberately using fire has been found not on an open plain but deep insid
🇺🇸 United States
First primates may have evolved in cold North America, not tropics
The earliest primate ancestors may have been cold weather survivors, not tropical tree dwellers. A study publi
🇨🇳 China
Horses first evolved in America, not Asia, fossil DNA shows
The horse, an animal long tied to human civilization in Europe and Asia, actually first appeared on the other
🇦🇺 Australia
Whales Have Died in This Indian Ocean Spot for 5 Million Years
For at least 5 million years, whales have been swimming to the same patch of the Indian Ocean to die. Scientis
🇨🇦 Canada
Woolly mammoth DNA found inside ancient squirrel poop in Canada
A team of scientists in Canada stumbled upon woolly mammoth DNA while digging through the fossilized feces of
🇩🇪 Germany
Goethe’s amber collection hides a 40-million-year-old ant
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the German literary giant who died in 1832, never knew that one of his amber speci
🇦🇶 Antarctica
380-million-year-old Antarctic fish skull reveals how animals first walked on land
A 380-million-year-old fish skull from Antarctica has revealed that some prehistoric fish were already equippe
🇺🇸 United States
Meet Tylosaurus rex, the 43-Foot Marine T. rex of Ancient Texas
The king of the ancient seas now has a name that echoes the most famous dinosaur of all. Scientists have ident
🇪🇸 Spain
Rare stegosaur skull found in Spain reshapes dinosaur family tree
A stegosaur skull so complete it is rewriting the evolutionary story of plated dinosaurs has been unearthed in
🇩🇪 Germany
Lab Grown T. Rex Leather Turns Out to Be Mostly Chicken
A team of scientists in Germany has grown leather from a Tyrannosaurus rex in a laboratory. The result looked
