{"id":1065333,"date":"2026-07-15T03:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/1065333\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T03:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:20:18","slug":"etats-unis-le-squelette-dun-t-rex-vendu-50-millions-de-dollars-a-new-york-un-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/1065333\/","title":{"rendered":"Etats-Unis\u00a0: Le squelette d\u2019un T-Rex vendu 50\u00a0millions de dollars \u00e0 New York, un record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/high-tech\/sciences\/4232442-20260702-encheres-squelette-rex-tres-bien-conserve-devrait-etre-vendu-entre-20-30-millions-dollars-new-york\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Le sp\u00e9cimen d\u2019un tyrannosaure rex<\/a> a \u00e9t\u00e9 adjug\u00e9 50,1\u00a0millions de dollars lors d\u2019une vente aux ench\u00e8res organis\u00e9e par <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/sotheby_s\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sotheby\u2019s<\/a> \u00e0 New York. L\u2019acqu\u00e9reur est rest\u00e9 anonyme. Cette transaction fait de \u00ab\u00a0Gus\u00a0\u00bb le fossile de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/dinosaure\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dinosaure<\/a> le plus cher jamais vendu, devant un march\u00e9 en plein essor.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9couvert en\u00a02021 dans un ranch du Dakota du Sud, \u00ab\u00a0Gus\u00a0\u00bb compte parmi les squelettes de T-Rex les plus complets au monde. Le fossile mesure 11,6 m\u00e8tres de long, r\u00e9unit 183 os et pr\u00e9sente un taux de compl\u00e9tude estim\u00e9 \u00e0 63\u00a0%. Il date du Maastrichtien, une p\u00e9riode comprise entre 72 et 66\u00a0millions d\u2019ann\u00e9es.<\/p>\n<p>Les sp\u00e9cialistes regrettent les ventes \u00e0 des priv\u00e9s<\/p>\n<p>Cette progression des ventes est critiqu\u00e9e par certains pal\u00e9ontologues, qui regrettent que des fossiles rejoignent des collections priv\u00e9es. \u00ab\u00a0Les <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/monde\/etats-unis\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Etats-Unis<\/a> sont le seul pays au monde o\u00f9 des fossiles de ce type sont consid\u00e9r\u00e9s comme une propri\u00e9t\u00e9 priv\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb, avait d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Cassandra Hatton, responsable des d\u00e9partements sciences et histoire naturelle chez Sotheby\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/dinosaure\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"c-link c-btn c-btn--primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Notre dossier sur les dinosaures<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elle avait expliqu\u00e9 les r\u00e8gles appliqu\u00e9es aux d\u00e9couvertes r\u00e9alis\u00e9es sur des terrains priv\u00e9s\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Si vous \u00eates propri\u00e9taire du terrain, vous \u00eates propri\u00e9taire du fossile et vous avez le droit de le vendre. Donc, si vous voulez un dinosaure, c\u2019est le seul endroit o\u00f9 vous pouvez en acqu\u00e9rir un.\u00a0\u00bb Le pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent record appartenait \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0Apex\u00a0\u00bb, un Stegosaurus achet\u00e9 44,6\u00a0millions de dollars en\u00a02024 par Ken Griffin et actuellement pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au public au Mus\u00e9e d\u2019histoire naturelle de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/new_york\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Le sp\u00e9cimen d\u2019un tyrannosaure rex a \u00e9t\u00e9 adjug\u00e9 50,1\u00a0millions de dollars lors d\u2019une vente aux ench\u00e8res organis\u00e9e par&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1065334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[47,18553,73,1011,27,74,415,43,40,41,39,13954,42,44,20898],"class_list":["post-1065333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sciences-et-technologies","tag-actualite","tag-dinosaure","tag-etats-unis","tag-fr","tag-france","tag-monde","tag-new-york","tag-science","tag-science-and-technology","tag-sciences","tag-sciences-et-technologies","tag-sothebys","tag-technologies","tag-technology","tag-ventes-aux-encheres"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1065334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}