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T. rex could become most expensive fossil ever - but it's a ​problem for scientists


A 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex will go on sale in New York with a pre-sale value of $30m.

From the BBC News-2026-7-12:8:5:31



T. rex could become most expensive fossil ever - but it's a ​problem for scientists


A 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex will go on sale in New York with a pre-sale value of $30m.

From the BBC News-2026-7-12:8:5:30



New dinosaur species with neck as long as cricket pitch discovered in Thailand


The plant-eating dinosaur, named Uragasaurus kalasinensis, is thought to have lived about 150 million years ago.

From the BBC News-2026-7-11:8:5:29


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Royal Society Publishing has recently published 2 theme issues of Philosophical Transactions B under the Subscribe to Open 2026 initiative:

  • Wild plant pathosystems
    Compiled and edited by Rachel M. Penczykowski, Remco Stam, Fletcher W. Halliday and Emily L. Bruns.
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, by Cat Bohannon, from Vintage Canada, (Mar 21).

Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea, by Matt Ridley, from Harper. (Mar 7).

The journal Insects has a call for papers for a special issue on "Evolutionary and Ecological Mechanisms of Plant Defense Against Insects". (Feb 28).

Mismatch Theories in Evolutionary Medicine: A Philosophical Exploration, by Jonas Pold, from Springer. (Feb 21).


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