The Rock's viral moment led to the resurgence in the hunt for Stan, according to a dinosaur expert
helped set the stage to solve one of the biggest recent mysteries in the paleontology community: finding out where a 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil nicknamed Stan had been shipped off to after its purchase in 2020.Amateur paleontologist Stan Sacrison in 1987 first discovered the T-Rex in South Dakota and it wasn’t 1992 when the Black Hills Institute started to excavate the dinosaur.
"I got a T-Rex skull. That’s Stan. As a matter of fact, so Stan was the most complete T-Rex skull ever found by a paleontologist, a young paleontologist and his name was Stan. So, this T-Rex head was named after him," Johnson said.The moment went viral with many in the scientific world wondering whether Johnson was the mysterious buyer. It turned out – he wasn’t.
A Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur fossil skeleton is displayed in a gallery at Christie’s auction house on Sept. 17, 2020 in New York City. "The other key thing is that by January 2022, enough data from U.S. and other international trade data sources … there had been enough time for other trade data set to catch up and cover the period [following] the first few months after Stan’s sale, which proved really important in my investigation into Stan’s sale," he said.
"I think the biggest is … is this institution is going to be committed to scientific research and to not just making Stan accessible to researchers but all the other items in its collection," Greshko said."And all of the public statements that Abu Dhabi has made and all the responses it had to my question, they’ve outlined a very ambitious scientific research agenda and they’ve said explicitly that Stan would be made available for scientific research.
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