Ben Creisler
Some recent items:
Now that the auction is over and the fossil has been sold, I can post something on the DML about the sale. The Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Stan has been sold for a jaw-dropping $31.8 million, vastly more than the asking price of aboutÂ$8 million. The buyer (presumably private) has so far not been revealed,
Granted that Tyrannosaurus rex is a special case among fossil animals, the staggering price still sets a potentially crippling precedent for science, making it even harder for museums and institutions that may try to obtain dinosaurs and other fossils for research and display from private or commercial sources. Dinosaurs as "art objects" is a bad idea...
See additional links below for issues raised before the auction.
From Thomas Carr
Jean Le Loeuff, on sale of Stan the T. rex
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Oksoko, new oviraptorosaur from Mongolia (full paper not yet posted)Â
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Angeac-Charente dinosaurs have not yet given up all their secrets: 11th dig season at site revealed giant sauropod track cast, more bones (with video) (in French)
Blog posts for October from the dig site:
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Dinosaurs of the Spatsizi Plateau in British Columbia
Victoria Arbour, Curator of Palaeontology
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The US Army Corps of Engineers owns a bunch of dinosaurs â the more you know!
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New insights on the diversification of large toothed pterosaurs
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Franziska Sattler, Vertebrate Paleontologist & Science Communicator
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Dinos in Pop Culture - Brachiosauruses Everywhere in Chicago