The skeleton of Gorgosaurus – with a height of around three meters and a length of 6.7 meters – was discovered in 2018 in Montana, United States.
A complete dinosaur skeleton, a “relative” of the Tyrannosaurus Rex (T-Rex) has sold for $6.1 million at a Sotheby’s auction in New York. It is a Gorgosaurus that is estimated to have lived 77 million years ago.
The price ($6,069,500) makes it “one of the most expensive dinosaurs ever sold at auction,” according to Sotheby’s, though it falls short of the record $31.8 million fetched by a T-Rex in 2020.
The skeleton of Gorgosaurus – with a height of around three meters and a length of 6.7 meters – was discovered in 2018 in Montana, United States.
Sales of dinosaur skeletons excite auctioneers, but frustrate paleontologists who would rather they be available for scientific research than an attraction to the collection of some oddball.
Ten feet tall, 22 feet long, and 77 million years old: the first skeleton of a Gorgosaurus dinosaur, discovered in the US state of Montana in 2018, has been bought at auction for $6.1 millionhttps://t.co/bPtDZL76f0
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) July 28, 2022
Last May, at a Christie’s auction in New York, the skeleton of a Deinonychus – a “relative” of Velociraptor, made famous by Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” – was sold for $12.4 million.
It was the second most expensive dinosaur skeleton ever sold at auction, behind the record set by Tyrannosaurus Rex in 2020.
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