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Billionaires Race To Buy $30M T. Rex Fossil for Their Collections; Scientists Fear Losing Access to History
18+ hour, 14+ min ago (766+ words) A rare T. rex fossil expected to sell for $30 million (£22 million) or more at Sotheby's this week rattled scientists who argue dinosaur fossils should not end up in private collections, but in museums. The specimen, known as Gus, is one of…...
Scientists Solve 70-Year Mystery After 'Mammoth' Bones Found 250 Miles From Sea
6+ mon, 1+ day ago (756+ words) For more than seven decades, they sat in a university museum as prized specimens: two ancient bones that appeared to belong to the world's youngest woolly mammoths ever discovered. Then scientists ran a DNA test, and the fossils told an…...