It Turns Out No One Wants a $500K T-Rex Leather Bag
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June 12, 2026
A handbag made of T. rex skin just learned that the fashion market can be cold-blooded. The lab-grown "leather" purse, made using collagen from a 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex femur found in Montana, was expected to fetch up to about $500,000 at Paris auction house Drouot—but bidding stalled around...
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