less Tyrannosaurus Rex A new study found that excavations are available for scientific research because the wealthy buy them for private groups.
Dinosaurs fossils are famous in many high -end auctions, while selling almost complete skeletons Tens of millions of dollars. However, private trade in T. Rex The samples can be hindered by the researchers of the iconic exaggeration The Cretaceous era Predator, I found the study.
T. Rex researcher Thomas CarAssociate Professor of Biology at Karakj College and Director of the Carthage Institute for Excavations in Wisconsin, and showed that there is now the most scientific value T. Rex Samples in private or commercial ownership of public museums and other public funds. I told Carr Science in an email that the situation was “disposal and corruption” and noted that the ownership of events and the branch was particularly concerned.
“Early growth stages of T. Rex Carr said: “The loss that receives poor actions, and therefore its loss, and thus carries the loss of scientific cost is heavier.
Carb has published the results, entitled “Tyrannosaurus Rex: a type of endangered species”, on April 10 in the magazine Palaeontologia Electronica.
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To better understand the impact of the market on the number T. Rex The excavations available to researchers, Carr what he described as “scientifically useful samples” – skulls, skeleton and isolated bones that researchers will include in studies on T. Rex Development and difference.
Calculate “useful” samples in public and private ownership by searching for books, museum records, news articles, auction records, anecdotal reports and other sources. A total of 61 samples in general confidence funds and 71 samples, including 14 events, found in private ownership-it is likely to be less than the “secret nature” of the private market and the discovery of new samples, according to the study.
Samples are commercially commercially It ends in public museumsEither on loan or after purchased it by the museum. But Car found that only 11 % of the harvest is commercially T. Rex Excavations end in public funds, and that commercial companies now discover twice the number of number T. Rex Excavations as museums.
Car note that the private sale of dinosaurs is not limited T. Rex. The luxurious fossil market includes all types of dinosaurs – The most expensive was sold at all Stegosaurus was sold at $ 44.6 million in 2024. (It is currently on loan to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City). Carr hopes to inspire his studies other researchers to study how the commercial market affects other old species, as he did for it T. Rex.
“I hope that the teammates concerned will start counting and publishing the samples of the species they are studying in the commercial market,” Car said.
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Thomas Holtz, SonThe scientist of the vertebrate excavation at the University of Maryland, looking for changes in Tyrannosaurus During its growth, he said that it is “frustrated” to know that many important samples that will help clarify these incomprehensible changes.
“Like Car, I am concerned not only that there are good and inaccurate samples for researchers, but especially since events and adult samples coincide with being an increase in commercial samples,” Holtz told Live Science:
David SeanAn zoop reader at Queen Mary University in London told Live Science that although he loves to see more samples in public groups, he was not worried about T. Rex Al -Ahfour trade is like Car.
“For the beginning, there is not much that can be done realistically over the commercial trade of things like this,” Hun said. He said: “Although I definitely love to see more samples in public groups, there is still a lot that can be studied. Brazilian and Mongolian fossilsIncluding dinosaurs, which are illegally smuggled by their countries.