Baby tyrannosaur’s eBay auction sparks outrage

Baby tyrannosaur’s eBay auction sparks outrage

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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/baby-tyrannosaur-s-ebay-auction-sparks-outrage

A reconstruction of the bones of baby tyrannosaur Son of Sampson, which is on sale on eBay

It’s astonishing what you can buy on eBay. An ongoing auction on the site offers buyers the chance to own what is claimed to be “maybe the only” juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered for a whopping $2.95 million. Paleontologists have condemned the sale for boosting the price of scientifically valuable specimens, and also because a scientific institution—the University of Kansas (KU) Natural History Museum in Lawrence—displayed and promoted the specimen for more than a year.