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Most expensive fossil sold until the sale of Stan in 2020. [10] Barnum Tyrannosaurus rex: 20% of a skeleton Collected by Japeth Boyce in Wyoming, United States in 1995 Bonhams: May 16, 2004: Los Angeles $93,250 [c] $150,422 Reported to potentially be the same individual as the first T. rex specimen ever discovered, now at the Natural History ...
Sue [a] (stylized: SUE), officially designated FMNH PR 2081, is one of the largest, [b] most extensive, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossils ever found, at over 90 percent recovered by bulk. [4] FMNH PR 2081 was discovered on August 12, 1990, [5] by American explorer and fossil collector Sue Hendrickson, after whom it is named.
Montana's T. rex (also known as "Peck's rex", "Peckrex", "Rigby's rex" and Tyrannosaurus "imperator") is the nickname given to a fossil specimen found in Montana in 1997. [54] The discovery was made by Louis E. Tremblay on 4 July 1997 working under the supervision of J. Keith Rigby Jr. who led the excavation and bone preparation.
In 1997, a T. rex fossil named Sue sold for $8.36 million to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Christie’s hopes that Stan, with his 188 bones, will sell for more than that.
The Tyrannosaurus rex fossil could change what we know about dinosaurs. Handout. Millions of years ago, the near-Canada region was an environment comparable to modern-day Florida, abundant with ...
Based on early estimates, Lyson thinks the fossil is that of a young T. rex that died of an unknown cause when it was 13 or 15 years old. It was about 25 feet long and weighed about 3,500 pounds.
His findings, published in 2019, yielded that Scotty is the largest (in weight and length), having out-measured the previous largest known Tyrannosaurus rex: Sue of the Chicago Field Museum (FMNH 2081). [13] After prolonged study of the growth patterns in the bones, "Scotty" was also declared as one of the oldest known T. rex fossils at 30 ...
A rare fossil of an adolescent Tyrannosaurus rex has been excavated in North Dakota's badlands - a find noteworthy for the scientific insight it may offer into the life history of this famous ...