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CNN 国际新闻
📌 标题：One of the largest T. rexes ever found smashes record for fossil sales
📅 发布时间：Updated Jul 14, 2026, 1:10 PM ET
📝 英文原文：
ATyrannosaurus rex skeletonfrom South Dakota has become the world’s most expensive fossil sold at auction, after fetching a record $50,130,000 at Sotheby’s in New York Tuesday.The skeleton, which is about 67 million years old, is nicknamed Gus after the late Gary ‘Gus’ Licking, a cattle rancher from Harding County, South Dakota, who owned the land where the specimen was found. He died in 2022, one year into the excavation of the fossil.Gus the T. rex is 38 feet long and 12.5 feet tall, with a skull measuring 54 inches, which makes it one of the largest T. rexes ever found, according to Sotheby’s. It includes 183 fossil bone elements, making it about 61% complete by bone count, or 75% to 80% complete by mass.Gus was excavated across three seasons, from 2021 to 2023, and was then subject to three more years of lab work to clean up and mount the bones.Jordan Tovin/ReutersLike many other T. rex skeletons, Gus comes from the Hell Creek Formation, a legendary geological boneyard that stretches across Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas.One of the first skeletonsof T. rex was found there in 1902, and the name T. rex was given to the speciesbased on fossilsunearthed in this area.The previous record for a fossil auction belonged to Apex the Stegosaurus, bought in 2024 by billionaire Ken Griffin for$44.6 million. It is currently halfway through a 4-year loan at New York’s Museum of Natural History.The presale estimate for Gus was between $20 and $30 million. The winning bid was placed over the phone.Lost to science?Paleontologists generally believe that once a fossil ends up in private hands, it is lost to science. Scientific journals will only publish research conducted on specimens held in publicly accessible collections; if a fossil is privately held, studies can’t be reliably reproduced, an important standard for verifying scientific findings.About about 61% complete by bone count, Gus is one of the most complete T. rex fossils ever found, according to Sotheby's.Matthew Sher
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🇨🇳 中文翻译：
周二，来自南达科他州的霸王龙骨架在纽约苏富比拍卖行以创纪录的 5013 万美元成交，成为世界上最昂贵的化石拍卖品。这具骨架距今约 6700 万年，以已故南达科他州哈丁县的牧场主加里·“格斯”·利金 (Gary ‘Gus’ Licking) 的名字命名为格斯 (Gus)，他是发现该化石的土地的所有者。他于 2022 年去世，即化石挖掘一年后。霸王龙格斯长 38 英尺，高 12.5 英尺，头部有
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