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![A Tyrannosaurus rex specimen, nicknamed Shen for now, is the first T. rex to hit the auction block in Asia.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hCMjafu6UZG9mUuHL46dbU-320-80.jpg)
Spectacular T. rex skeleton may fetch $25 million at auction (the new owner gets to name it, too)
By Laura Geggel published
Paleontologists are unhappy that a T. rex specimen from Montana is hitting the auction block in Hong Kong in November.
![Scientists think the eggs belong to a new species.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hqiY6SRWGn59z672AbDHZg-320-80.jpg)
Crystal-stuffed dinosaur eggs the size of cannonballs discovered in China
By Ben Turner published
East China’s volcanic terrain is ideal for fossil hunters, who discovered the unusual eggs
![During the recent excavation at the Monte Agudo paleontological site in Pombal, Portugal, scientists extracted part of the fossilized skeleton of a large sauropod dinosaur.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RBbd6RKR7CQJr8pymTgyJZ-320-80.jpg)
Ginormous Jurassic fossil in Portugal may be the biggest dinosaur ever found in Europe
By Joanna Thompson published
While researchers have not yet identified the species of an enormous newfound dinosaur, the sauropod is already breaking size records.
![A close-up image of intact skin on the ankle bones of a hadrosaur fossil.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/tXpMkCnopMLndPenEo7ir6-320-80.jpg)
Rare fossils reveal basketball-like skin on duck-billed dinosaur
By Jennifer Nalewicki published
The juvenile hadrosaur is impeccably well preserved.
![Mbiresaurus raathi in shallow water with other Triassic animals nearby](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/69tZui4RspKma574mgbytQ-320-80.jpg)
Oldest African dinosaur ever found unearthed in Zimbabwe
By Joanna Thompson last updated
Meet Mbiresaurus raathi, the oldest African dinosaur (and one of the world's earliest) whose neighbors lived in Brazil.
![The Nadir crater, seen on seismic imagery from West Africa. The bottom of the crater, lined in green dots, sits at approximately the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene, when the dinosaurs died out.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ykkUXoXapdPPdYvwKAjpVH-320-80.jpg)
Did the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs have a sibling? Crater in West Africa hints maybe.
By Stephanie Pappas published
A 66 million-year-old impact crater has been discovered off the coast of West Africa, raising questions about just how many deadly space rocks the dinosaurs had to deal with.
![The newly described ankylosaur Stegouros elengassen displays its weaponized tail.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UgDNxWSpbjFrBjbwEzCCxd-320-80.gif)
'Very weird' ankylosaur's tail looked like an Aztec war club
By Laura Geggel last updated
Paleontologists in Chile have found the remains of an ankylosaur that represents a new dinosaur lineage.
![Jakapil Kanikukura, a new species of armored dinosaur from Argentina, weighed as much as a housecat and had a line of armored spikes going down its neck and back.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mgnm8MpQ4b2C5A3ciBZyed-320-80.jpg)
Small, prickly dinosaur discovered in South America reveals an unknown lineage
By Stephanie Pappas published
An armored dinosaur that weighed as much as a housecat has been discovered in South America. Though it resembles a primitive relative of ankylosaurus, it came from late in dinosaur history.
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