{"id":296304,"date":"2026-07-15T05:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/296304\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T05:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:27:07","slug":"t-rex-skeleton-sells-for-50-1-million-at-new-york-auction-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/296304\/","title":{"rendered":"T.Rex skeleton sells for $50.1 million at New York auction | History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsFeed<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead u-inline \">A T.Rex skeleton nicknamed \u2018Gus\u2019 sold for a record $50 million at an auction in New York. The dinosaur remains are approximately 70 million years old and nearly 80% complete. The final bid was $43 million, but fees pushed the closing price to $50.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 15 Jul 202615 Jul 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share-nodes<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NewsFeed A T.Rex skeleton nicknamed \u2018Gus\u2019 sold for a record $50 million at an auction in New York.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2091,881,9,11,10,5667,5668,901,2272],"class_list":["post-296304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-arts-and-culture","tag-history","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-newsfeed","tag-show-types","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}