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At a Sotheby's auction in New York, a rare Nanotyrannus skeleton nicknamed Jodi sold for $47.3 million — the second most expensive dinosaur fossil sale in history. The buyer remained unnamed, and scientists are once again debating whether such finds should end up in private collections or in museums.
Aziz KarimovPaleontologists have described a new species of ancient bird from Fujian province that lived 150–148 million years ago. It had serrated teeth and a sickle-shaped claw like predatory dinosaurs, but short forelimbs indicate a ground-dwelling lifestyle. The work is published in Nature.
Aziz KarimovAn international team of researchers has identified six bone fragments from the Abauntz cave (Navarre) as the remains of a male Neanderthal who lived around 46,000 years ago. These are the first Neanderthal remains in the region, confirming their presence in the western Pyrenees.
Javlon TursunovA 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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