Do Multimillion-Dollar Dinosaur Auctions Erode Trust In Science?

Dinosaurs are in the news these days, but it's not just for groundbreaking discoveries. More and more paleontologists are ringing alarm bells about high-profile auctions in which dinosaur fossils sell for outrageous sums. The most recent example involves a 77 million-year-old Gorgosaurus skeleton that Sotheby's sold for over US$6 million in August 2022. Advertisement Advertisement But that's not even close to the most anyone ever paid for a dinosaur. In May 2022, Christie's sold a Deinonychus skeleton for $12.4 million. And a couple of months before that, Abu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism paid an eye-popping $31.8 million for…