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New York (AFP) - The largest stegosaurus skeleton ever found, nicknamed Apex, sold for a record breaking $44.6 million at auction in New York on Wednesday, Sotheby's said. Estimated to be 150 million years old, Apex is said to be "among the most complete skeletons ever found," according to the auction house. It measures 11 feet (3.3 meters) tall and 27 feet long and counts 254 fossil bone elements of an approximate total of 319. The previous auction record of $31.8 million for a dinosaur skeleton was set in 2020 for a Tyrannosaurus Rex nicknamed "Stan." Sotheby's had expected Apex to fetch b...
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New York (AFP) - Le plus grand squelette de stégosaure jamais reconstitué, surnommé "Apex", a été vendu pour un montant record de 44,6 millions de dollars aux enchères à New York mercredi, a annoncé la maison Sotheby's. Agé d'environ 150 millions d'années, "Apex" est considéré comme l'un "des squelettes les plus complets jamais découverts", d'après la société. Haut de 3,3 mètres, il est composé de 254 fossiles osseux sur un total de 319. La maison Sotheby's avait estimé sa valeur entre 4 et 6 millions de dollars, mais le prix a rapidement grimpé quand des acheteurs à distance se sont rués sur ...
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The Natural History Museum in London is set to open its newly revamped gardens, a five-year project costing £25 million (€29.7m), located just outside its main entrance. Among the highlights of the gardens is Fern, a magnificent 26-metre-long bronze cast of a Dippy the diplodocus, the museum’s much-loved centrepiece and who is currently on a national tour. "It's a bronze replica of Dippy, the diplodocus who used to grace the Natural History Museum Central hall," says Professor Susannah Maidment, a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum. Museum of Evolution unveils 97% complete dinosaur ...
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The bones of a nearly complete 161-million-year-old dinosaur is going under the hammer at at Sotheby’s in New York, as part of their annual Geek Week sale series. 'Apex,' billed as the most complete Stegosaurus ever discovered measures 11 feet tall and approximately 27 feet long from the tip of its tail to its nose, according to Cassandra Hatton, the Global Head of Science and Popular culture at Sotheby’s. “In terms of Stegosaurus, this is an incredibly rare animal. There are only eight or nine known in the world,” says Hatton. Museum of Evolution unveils 97% complete dinosaur skeletonBarry th...
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In July 2022, two young brothers and their cousin were wandering through a fossil-rich stretch of the North Dakota badlands when they made a discovery that left them “completely speechless”: a T. rex bone poking out of the ground. The trio announced their find publicly on Monday (3 June) as workers at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science prepared to extract the fossil from its rock encasement at a special exhibit titled "Discovering Teen Rex." A documentary crew with Giant Screen Films was there to capture the discovery. The film, titled "T.REX", will debut at the exhibit's opening on 21 June...
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Washington (AFP) - What did you do for summer vacation? Three pre-teen dinosaur aficionados have the answer of a lifetime: they discovered the remains of a rare juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex in the North Dakota dirt. Scientists and filmmakers announced Tuesday that brothers Liam and Jessin Fisher, age seven and 10 at the time of the find, and their nine-year-old cousin Kaiden Madsen, were walking in the Hell Creek formation of the Badlands in July 2022 when they found a large fossilized leg bone. "Dad asked 'What is this?' and Jessin said, 'That's a dinosaur!'" exclaimed young Liam on a video ca...
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Washington (AFP) - Paleontologists said Thursday they had discovered a new giant carnivorous dinosaur species that had a massive head and tiny arms, just like Tyrannosaurus rex. The researchers' findings, published in the journal Current Biology, suggest that small forelimbs were no evolutionary accident, but rather gave apex predators of the time certain survival advantages. Meraxes gigas -- named after a fictional dragon in the Game of Thrones book series -- was dug up over the course of four years during field expeditions in the northern Patagonia region of Argentina, starting with the skul...
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