Samson, a Tyrannosaurus Rex whose near-complete skeleton was found in South Dakota in 1992, is up for sale in Las Vegas. Auctioneers hope to get between 6 and 8 million dollars for the skeleton thought to be 66 million years old.
The remains of a 47-million-year-old fossile of a creature that could be the missing link between men, apes and other primates was shown to the public in New York on Tuesday. Named "Ida", the Darwiniuis masillae was found in Germany.
A fossil of a Titanoboa, a descendant of the boa constrictor, has been found in a mine in Colombia. This 60-million old reptile was 13 metres long, which makes him the biggest snake in history.
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