Tyrannosaurus Bataar Sells After Judge Orders Auction Halt (New York) - nola.com
21 May 2012, 1:31 pm
Two bidders vied for the fossil, which went to an anonymous telephone bidder for $875,000, without buyer's commission, according to David herskowitz, director of natural history at Heritage Auctions. "It was a bargain," he said. "The pre-auction publicity ...

Tyrannosaurus Bataar Sale After Judge Orders Auction Halt - Bloomberg
21 May 2012, 12:20 pm
Two bidders vied for the fossil, which went to an anonymous telephone bidder for $875,000, without buyer’s commission, according to David herskowitz, director of natural history at Heritage Auctions. “It was a bargain,” he said.

65million years in the making... £1million under the hammer: But was the auctioning of T-Rex's cousin legal, or was the skeleton stolen? - Daily Mail
21 May 2012, 10:40 am
Nonetheless, he said, Heritage has agreed not to complete the sale until 'a court signs off on it.' David herskowitz, the director of Heritage's natural history department, said the body of the skeleton is 75 per cent complete and the head is about 80 per ...

Dinosaur skeleton sells for $1 million at New York auction - ITV
21 May 2012, 5:39 am
Credit: Heritage Auctions According to David herskowitz, Director of Natural History at Heritage Auctions, the Tyrannosaurus bataar pre-dates the T-rex and has only been discovered in Asia. The T-bataar was slightly smaller and had longer arms ...

Dino dismay: Origin of skeleton to be auctioned questioned - msnbc.com
18 May 2012, 8:09 pm
David herskowitz, director of natural history for Heritage Auctions, said the T. bataar skeleton entered the United States legally, adding in a statement that "no one knows where exactly it was dug up. They'd have to find the hole and match up the matrix."

T-Rex Asian Cousin Beats Facebook IPO for Some at Auction - Bloomberg
18 May 2012, 8:42 am
There are many reasons that’s good value. “This is the first time a Tyrannosaurus that is fully prepared and mounted is being sold at auction,” said David herskowitz, director of natural history at Heritage Auctions. “It takes about two ...

For sale: Tyrannosaurus skeleton at NYC auction - The Christian Science Monitor
17 May 2012, 10:26 pm
"The coolest thing about dinosaurs are the claws and the teeth," said David herskowitz, director of Natural History at Heritage Auctions. "Here you have like 80 percent of the claws are real, and 75 percent of the teeth are real." The starting ...

Tyrannosaurus Skeleton Of T. Rex 'Cousin' To Be Auctioned On May 20 - Huffington Post
15 May 2012, 1:31 pm
This is the first full Tyrannosaurus specimen to go on auction since "Sue," a Tyrannosaurus rex, sold for $8.3 million in 1997, said David herskowitz, director of Natural History at Heritage Auctions, the auction house conducting the sale.

Rare Tyrannosaurus skeleton to be auctioned - msnbc.com
14 May 2012, 7:09 pm
This is the first full Tyrannosaurus specimen to go on auction since "Sue," a Tyrannosaurus rex, sold for $8.3 million in 1997, said David herskowitz, director of Natural History at Heritage Auctions, the auction house conducting the sale.