Does a luxury handbag made from dinosaur collagen interest you? It's up for auction
India Today
Who knew that a fragment of the prehistoric past could be reimagined as a future luxury product! Although it's not without raising a few scientific eyebrows.
Scientists and designers have unveiled a striking new handbag crafted from lab-grown leather derived from collagen linked to Tyrannosaurus rex (T.rex) fossils, in what they say is a bold demonstration of next-generation materials.
The teal-coloured bag is on display at Amsterdam’s Art Zoo museum, perched on a rock inside a cage beneath a replica of a T. rex. It will remain there until May 11, after which it is set to be auctioned, with a reported starting price of over half a million dollars.
According to the team behind the project, the material was developed using ancient protein fragments extracted from dinosaur remains. These fragments were inserted into an unidentified animal's cell to produce collagen, which was then processed into leather.
Scientists and designers unveiled a handbag made with lab-grown collagen derived from Tyrannosaurus rex fossils https://t.co/qk3tMHPMW0 pic.twitter.com/hDxh6MHldd— Reuters (@Reuters) April 2, 2026
“There were a lot of technical challenges,” said Thomas Mitchell, CEO of The Organoid Company, one of three firms involved in the project.
The initiative is a collaboration between genomic engineering firm Organoid, creative agency VML, and Lab-Grown Leather Ltd. Notably, Organoid and VML had earlier worked together in 2023 for creating a giant meatball using DNA from a woolly mammoth combined with sheep cells.
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