# These companies want to make hand bags out of T-rex leather. But scientists aren’t buying it

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/these-companies-want-to-make-hand-bags-out-of-t-rex-leather-but-scientists-arent-buying-it/
- Published: 2025-05-11T09:45:00-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo: Animatronic T-Rex in the Natural History Museum. London, United Kingdom, June 18, 2018. Photo credit: Brian Jeffery Beggerly via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by Tudor Tarita. ZME Science – May 9, 2025. Somewhere in a lab, a Tyrannosaurus rex is being brought back to life—not as a living, breathing beast, but as a handbag (Slay king!). A trio of companies—creative agency VML, genome engineering firm The Organoid Company, and tissue-engineering startup Lab-Grown Leather Ltd.—recently announced a project that seems rather science fiction. They plan to create a new kind of lab-grown, eco-friendly leather, modeled on the collagen of the most iconic predator to ever walk the Earth: Tyrannosaurus rex. If all goes according to plan, the luxury Cretaceous leather accessory could hit the market by the end of 2025. […] Click here to view original web page at www.zmescience.com