In news that makes me really regret not winning the lotto last night (I knew I should have played), one of the largest and most complete t-rex fossils was recently sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $50.1 million to an anonymous phone bidder (crazy how professional I can make myself

A partnership between biotech startup Lab-Grown Leather, genomic engineering firm The Organoid Company and creative agency VML, T-Rex Leather is lab-grown leather created using the reconstructed collagen sequences of a t-rex. Some more details while I speculate how long until Texas Roadhouse is grilling dino steaks. To engineer leather from

In news that makes me wish I was a millionaire (full disclosure: all news makes me with I was a millionaire), Trey the juvenile triceratops fossil is scheduled to go up for auction beginning March 17th. The roughly three-quarters grown specimen will be sold by digital auction house Joopiter, and

Executively produced by Steven Spielberg and narrated by Morgan Freeman, The Dinosaurs is an upcoming documentary from Netflix detailing the rise and fall of everyone’s favorite prehistoric animals. Premiering March 6th, I did expect the computer graphics to be better. From the looks of things, we haven’t really progressed much

These are a couple video of San Francisco lawyer Trevor Mead’s Doleresaurus costume, a blue-LED illuminated t-rex exoskeleton he likes to wear around Haight Street and Dolores Park at sunset. Hey — we all spend our evenings differently. Unless you spend yours eating multiple TV dinners back-to-back and yelling at

These are two videos from Youtuber CoolioArt, who added feathers and wings to the raptors in Jurassic Park for a more authentic appearance. Unfortunately, he didn’t also make them turkey-sized like actual raptors. Granted, dinosaurs did exist that were similar to the velociraptors seen in the movie (like Deinonychus and

This is a video from informative Youtuber ReYOUniverso imagining if the history of life on earth were packed into a 24 hour period. If that were the case, the first fully formed cells come into existence at 4:30AM, and it takes all the way until 9:34PM for plants to emerge

Because it’s reassuring to know somebody is putting AI to good use to better the planet, these are a couple scenes from Jurassic Park that have been edited with artificial intelligence to give the look they were filmed in portrait mode on an iPhone. It does have a certain look