JURASSIC SCARCE

Boffins: Tycoons buying all our dinosaur bones

- BY SIAN HEWITT

DINO boffins are struggling to find enough T-Rex fossils to study because they are being snapped up by the super-rich.

Experts say the wealthy buyers are spending “tens of millions” at auctions to stockpile the precious remains.

They found there were more scientifically valuable T-Rex bones owned privately than in public museums, which they said was “dispiriting and exasperating”.