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Topic: sothebys

A mounted Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton on museum display (file image)

Tuesday, 7/14, 05:32 PM

T. rex skeleton sells for record $50 million, reviving a fight over fossils

A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton nicknamed Gus has sold for $50.1 million at Sotheby's in New York, the highest price ever paid for a dinosaur fossil at auction and a result that has reopened a long-running dispute over whether scientifically important specimens should end up in private hands.

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