{"id":777608,"date":"2026-07-22T09:53:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777608\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:53:24","slug":"the-worlds-most-expensive-dinosaur-may-now-be-lost-to-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777608\/","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s most expensive dinosaur may now be lost to science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/132530822.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Gus has sold for $50.1 million at Sotheby\u2019s in New York, becoming the most expensive fossil ever auctioned. The unidentified buyer, bidding by telephone, defeated six rivals during a 10-minute contest that pushed the price far beyond its $20 million to $30 million estimate.<br \/>The sale is a landmark for the rapidly expanding market in dinosaur fossils. It has also revived a question that has followed almost every major fossil auction in recent years: when an irreplaceable piece of Earth\u2019s history becomes a multimillion-dollar collectible, will researchers and the public ever see it again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Gus has sold for $50.1 million at Sotheby\u2019s in New York,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5165,331466,79,198,278789],"class_list":["post-777608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-dinosaur","tag-gus","tag-science","tag-sothebys","tag-tyrannosaurus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}