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Do multimillion-dollar dinosaur auctions erode trust in science?

  • Written by Lukas Rieppel, Associate Professor of History, Brown University
Do multimillion-dollar dinosaur auctions erode trust in science?Sotheby's sold a 77 million-year-old Gorgosaurus skeleton for over $6 million in July 2022.Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Dinosaurs are in the news these days, but it’s not just for groundbreaking discoveries.

More and more paleontologists are ringing alarm bells about high-profile auctions in which dinosaur fossils sell for outrageous sums. The...

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