A T rex found in South Dakota could smash auction records — and possibly disappear forever

A large T. rex skeleton nicknamed ‘Gus’ is on track to break auction records, and highlight one of paleontology’s biggest predicaments.

T. rex could become most expensive fossil ever - but it's a ​problem for scientists

A 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex will go on sale in New York with a pre-sale value of $30m.

A cattle rancher found dinosaur bones on his land for years — then his ranch sold a T. Rex for $50 million

The 2026 T Rex goes by Gus – named after Gary “Gus” Licking, the owner of the South Dakota ranch where he was discovered.
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Neglected Museum Fossils Turn Out to Be The First T. Rex Hatchlings Ever Found

A photo of the baby T. rex puppet used in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. (Michael Irving/ScienceAlert) Jurassic Park was wrong. Again. In the second movie, hunters find an infant Tyrannosaurus rex and use it to lure the adults into a trap.

T. rex babies were born ready to run and feed themselves

Tyrannosaurus rex was a giant of the prehistoric world, standing up to 13 feet (4 meters) tall and weighing around 9 tons (8 tonnes). So you might expect that its hatchlings were also a considerable size.

Baby T. rex bones found stashed in museum drawer: ‘Vanishingly rare’

British researchers claim they’ve identified the first-known fossils of baby tyrannosaurs, offering a rare glimpse at the earliest days of the giant reptile’s life, according to a groundbreaking new study in the journal Biology.