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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…...

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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…...