Science Apr 18

67-million-year-old T-rex skeleton presented to media before auction in Zurich
T. rex fossil sells for more than $5M at Zurich auction

Nearly 300 Tyrannosaurus rex bones that were dug up from three sites in the United States and assembled into a single skeleton sold at Tuesday at a Switzerland auction for 4.8 million francs ($5.3 million), below the expected price.

Science Mar 14

Before T-rex became humongous, it learned to hear footsteps

Tyrannosaurus rex, the behemoth king of the late ages of the dinosaurs, grew its brain before its noteworthy body. That’s according to scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, who today unveiled the fossils for a new species…