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Newcastle Scientists Create World's First T-Rex Leather Handbag

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The team at Lab-Grown Leather have used 66 year-old dinosaur DNA to bring the idea to life

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Science, fashion and dinosaurs may sound like a combination destined for science fiction, but this week it became reality when a group of researchers and designers unveiled a luxury handbag developed from lab-grown leather based on collagen from Tyrannosaurus rex fossils. The bright turquoise, one-of-a-kind bag was first displayed at the Art Zoo museum in Amsterdam, perched on a rock and surrounded by a metal cage, with a giant T-Rex model hover…

Science fiction in Amsterdam: A consortium of genetics companies has unveiled a luxury bag made of lab-grown leather and incorporating T-Rex skin proteins • While the developers promise a "technological upgrade" and offer the bag for auction for $500,000, paleontologists doubt the claims: "Real leather cannot be created from DNA particles left in fossils"

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Israel Hayom broke the news in on Monday, April 6, 2026.
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