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At a Sotheby's auction in New York, a unique Nanotyrannus skeleton found in 2019 in Montana sold for $47.3 million — the second most expensive fossil in history. The original estimate was $6–9 million. The sale has drawn criticism from the scientific community.
Aziz KarimovA skull fragment kept at the Natural History Museum in London for almost 100 years has been identified as a new species of predatory dinosaur, Invictibellatrix amberina, which lived about 120 million years ago. It is the first confirmed evidence of a megaraptor in Europe. The find was made on the Isle of Wight by collector Reginald Walter Hooley, who died in 1924; a study using CT scanning was published in Royal Society Open Science.
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