Sotheby’s sold a 77 million-year-old Gorgosaurus skeleton for over $6 million in July 2022. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images September 30, 2022 Do multimillion-dollar dinosaur auctions erode trust in science? Lukas Rieppel, Brown University Derided as ‘toys for the rich,’ the specimens being bought and sold raise broader questions about the relationship between science and capitalism.
NMK Photography/Flickr Juni 9, 2017 How did the VW camper turn into a £90,000 icon? Chris Ebbert, Nottingham Trent University Auctioneers have put a record price tag on the ultimate symbol of 60s counterculture and vintage nostalgia.
It’s probably a yeti. Gareth Dyke Januari 6, 2015 Fossil collecting should be for everyone – not just academics Gareth Dyke, University of Southampton Almost all natural history museums and recognised public collections of fossils have in the past relied on finds purchased from private collectors, and many still do. But the role of amateur fossil collectors…