2000-07-17 04:00:00 PDT San Francisco-- The priceless fossil of a winged reptile some 200 million years old will soon find a price after all: It's headed for the auction block in San Francisco and ...

For fans of Jurassic Park, it could be the ultimate Christmas gift, and should even fit snugly in the living room – so long as the £5 million price tag is not too off-putting. A rare baby ...

Because fossils are selling for so much, more ranchers are leasing land to private excavators for extra income. “Stan sold for more than $30 million,” he said.

A stegosaurus skeleton known as "Apex" was recently sold at auction for $44 million. It has sparked a debate over whether private buyers should be allowed to own fossils.

In 2009, commercial fossil hunters in Montana dug up what was, unbenownst to them, an important new species of dinosaur. What happened next shows how the commercial fossil business controls ...

Four years ago, the commercial fossil market was jolted by the sale of a T. rex skeleton called Stan that fetched a record $31.8 million, setting off a gold rush for dinosaur fossils in the ...

At the time of sale, paleontologists feared the fossil was lost to science, but in March the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism revealed plans for Stan to be a star attraction at a new ...

The buyer was billionaire Ken Griffin, CEO of the hedge fund Citadel, who says he plans to loan the fossil to American institutions for display. But despite Griffin’s statement, some paleontologists ...