Trinity – known to their enemies as TRX-293 – is a Frankenstein’s monsterisation of three separate T-Rex skeletons, collected by archeologists from different sites in Montana and Wyoming. 

“It’s a fair price for the dino,” continued Green, “I hope it’s going to be shown somewhere in public”.

Paleontologists were dismayed at the news of Trinity being up for auction to a private collector, who could choose not to display what they believed should be a skeleton to be explored and enjoyed by the public.

65 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled this planet. Amongst the 2.5 billion dinosaurs scientists estimate ever lived, the mighty T-rex was an apex predator who ruled by force (we think…. There’s a chance they were intensely peaceful bureaucrats, and we’ve all just overthunk the big teeth and whatnot).

Compared to the dinos’ reign, ours has only just begun.

In a much shorter timespan, our soft, furry, vulnerable bodies have invented systems capable of commodifying fossilised bones and trading them for pieces of paper (or digitally hallucinated pieces of paper) – which control most of what we ever do.

Not to rub it in, given that you’re already extinct, but take that dinos.

Trinity’s buyer was not identified to the public, but has been described as a “European private collector”.

Editor’s note: Recommended listening after reading the article – DINOSAURS – Lupe Fiasco

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