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The most precious fossil goes up for auction in Hong Kong, but it's bad news for science

2022-10-13 20:15:55Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The most precious fossil goes up for auction in Hong Kong, but it's bad
Shen, T. rex skeleton

The Hong Kong auction house will put up for sale the most precious Tyrannosaurus rex fossil, which has worried the team of scientists, as the skeleton may end up in the hands of an individual and may not be available to the scientific team.

Shen is the name of the T. rex skeleton, which was found in the Hell Creek Formation in Montana, as well as the Stan skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex, which was bought at auction in 2020 by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi for the amount of 31.8 million dollars, with the promise of a permanent exhibition in a new museum to be inaugurated in 2025.

MILLIONAIRE SKELETONS . Shen will be auctioned at Christie's in Hong-Kong on November 30, 2022. It is the first T. rex skeleton (a species that lived in the Americas) to be offered for sale in Asia. The famous auction house estimates that the fossil will fetch between $15 million and $25 million, less than what Stan paid, but still an astronomical figure, which will give the buyer the opportunity to choose which name to use. put the fossil.

Shen is 12 meters long, almost 5 meters high and weighs 1400 kg and like all T. rex skeletons is very valuable not only from a financial point of view, but above all from a scientific point of view. And that's why the world of paleontology is not happy with this auction.

BAD NEWS FOR SCIENCE. Besides being able to name the skeleton, whoever buys Shen will also become the sole owner. This means that, unless you are a philanthropist interested in paleontological research, it will be very difficult if not impossible to do research on the skeleton.

Interviewed by Live Science, paleontologist Thomas Carr explained that "this auction is bad news for science" and that "we don't even know how complete this specimen is." The fear is that Shen (or as it will be renamed) will end up disappearing into some private collection, stealing a precious resource from science. And there are worries about the future, too: the power of fossil-loving billionaires is far greater than that of any museum, and the danger is that more and more skeletons will end up locked away in a metaphorical closet instead of being made available to the scientific community. .


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