How three kids made a rare dinosaur discovery. A North Dakota family loved to go fossil hunting. When they found a dinosaur bone, they had no idea it was a scientifically valuable juvenile T. rex.

The T. rex fossil, affectionately named the “Teen Rex” because of its possible age, was discovered in the summer of 2023. Juvenile T. rex fossils are rare, according to the museum, which said ...

Such is the fate of “Stan” the T. rex, a massive, mostly complete skeleton of one of the most legendary species of dinosaurs known to Earth. The enormous fossil was sold in October of 2020 for ...

Based on early estimates, Lyson thinks the fossil is that of a young T. rex that died of an unknown cause when it was 13 or 15 years old. It was about 25 feet long and weighed about 3,500 pounds.

T. rex fossils have also made headlines. “ Stan,” the famous skeleton auctioned in 2020 for $31.8 million, disappeared from scientific discourse until reports surfaced suggesting Dwayne “The ...

Juvenile T. rex fossils are not an everyday find. This one, dubbed by the museum as the "Teen Rex," is one of just four young T. rex fossils that have been found on Earth, Lyson said.

Even worse, many fossils being bought privately or commercially are the most scientifically valuable: juveniles and subadults, which make up the least understood phase of T. rex development.

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 ...

Don't tell the producers of Jurassic World, but dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex may have grown even larger than we previously thought based on the fossils they left behind. This is the conclusion ...

Science More of teenage T. rex uncovered at Denver Museum of Nature & Science A team of fossil preparators are publicly revealing the fossil inch by inch at the museum.

DENVER (KDVR) — Details about a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex fossil discovered by three boys in North Dakota are beginning to take shape at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, including its ...

The T. rex fossil, affectionately named the “Teen Rex” because of its possible age, was discovered in the summer of 2023.