And price climbs higher

The partial skull of a tyrannosaurid is for sale on ebay. This isn't the first time that somebody has taken a T-rex to the auction block, but it's the first time I've seen this quality of a specimen for sale on ebay. At the time of my posting this, the bid was at nearly $300,000. The T-rex named Sue went for 8.3 million at Sothebys a few years ago, and that was for the entire skeleton. This isn't even 5 percent of a skeleton, it's just part of the skull and a rib. And I know that no museum would pay that much for it. After all, the current bid is already close to the value Phil Currie's research chair here at the U of A for the next 5 years.