The U.S. is one of the limited places around the world where the discovery and sale of dinosaur bones is legal, Petrozzo added. Many fossil-rich countries limit the sale and export of dinosaur ...

Paleontologists have previously warned that enthusiasm for dinosaur bones by private collectors is pricing them out of reach of the world's museums.

The sale is the second-ever of a fossilised dinosaur skeleton auctioned by Sotheby ... private land in the US state of Montana. It has 79 bone elements, stands 10ft (3m) tall and is 22ft long.

The market for rare dino skeletons has been heating up. Just ask hedge-fund billionaire Ken Griffin, who acquired one for $44 ...

Collectors might want to beware when bidding on dinosaurs at auction houses. A recent trio of Wyoming dinosaurs sold for more than $15 million at ...

HOUSTON (CN) – Two dinosaur-bone hunters whose excavation of a rare juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton nearly 20 years ago in South Dakota set off a lengthy court battle are back in court, fighting ...