Sold for a record price of more than $50 million, ‘Gus’ was described by Sotheby’s as more than 60% complete.
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Derided as ‘toys for the rich,’ the specimens being bought and sold raise broader questions about the relationship between science and capitalism.
Auctioneers have put a record price tag on the ultimate symbol of 60s counterculture and vintage nostalgia.
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…
