{"id":56651,"date":"2026-07-14T18:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/meet-gus-the-worlds-most-expensive-tyrannosaurus-rex\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:35:24","slug":"meet-gus-the-worlds-most-expensive-tyrannosaurus-rex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/meet-gus-the-worlds-most-expensive-tyrannosaurus-rex\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet &#8216;Gus&#8217;, the world&#8217;s most expensive Tyrannosaurus rex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex has been sold for \u00a337.4m ($50.1m) at a Sotheby&#8217;s auction in New York &#8211; the most ever paid for a dinosaur.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fossil of this infamous predator stands more than 12 feet (4m) tall, and with over 60% of its bones recovered is one of &#8220;the most complete&#8221; specimens ever found, according to Sotheby&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The winning bidder at the sale on Tuesday has not yet been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gus, as the T. rex has been affectionately named, was discovered in 2021 on a remote ranch in the US State of South Dakota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0qyq800n44o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Read more about Gus and the auction where it was sold here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/ckg8gymjv7ro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex has been sold for \u00a337.4m ($50.1m) at a Sotheby&#8217;s auction in New York &#8211; the most ever paid for a dinosaur. The fossil of this infamous predator stands more than 12 feet (4m) tall, and with over 60% of its bones recovered is one of &#8220;the most complete&#8221; specimens ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[5206,15972,195,15974,15973,3833],"class_list":["post-56651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-expensive","tag-gus","tag-meet","tag-rex","tag-tyrannosaurus","tag-worlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56653,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56651\/revisions\/56653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}