T-Rex skull cast installed in Oxford University college dining hall
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A cast of one of the world's most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils has been installed in Reuben College's dining hall.
A cast of the skull of 'Stan', one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils ever found, has been installed in the dining hall of Reuben College at Oxford University. The cast will remain on display for at least the next five years.
The loan comes from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, which is adjacent to Reuben College. Janet Stott, vice-president of Reuben College and deputy director of the museum, said the arrangement was 'a wonderful example of the unique relationship between Reuben College and the University's Gardens, Libraries and Museums'.
Reuben College was established in 2019 as the first new college at Oxford or Cambridge since 1990, with a focus on post-graduate studies. The original Stan fossil lived around 67 million years ago in what is now South Dakota and was first discovered in 1987 by amateur palaeontologist Stan Sacrison, after whom it is named. The fossil sold at auction in 2020 for $31.8 million, a record price for any dinosaur skeleton or fossil. Casts of Stan are displayed in museums worldwide, including the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., while the original remains on show at the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi.
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- Unique T-Rex installed in Oxford University college's dining hallThe dinosaur skull cast has been loaned from a museum and put on display in the dining hall of the Oxford University college.Oxford Mail · 8 Oct, 20:00
- Unique T-Rex installed in Oxford University college's dining hallThe dinosaur skull cast has been loaned from a museum and put on display in the dining hall of the Oxford University college.Oxfordshire Guardian · 8 Oct, 20:00
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