Rare dinosaur skeleton sells for more than US$2 million at auction, with promise of being lent to museum
The bones of what scientists believe to be ‘probably a new species’ of the carnivorous allosaurus were discovered during a dig in the United States in 2013
The skeleton of an extremely rare form of dinosaur sold for more than €2 million (US$2.3 million) at the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Monday.
The bones of what scientists believe to be “probably a new species” of the carnivorous allosaurus were discovered during a dig in Wyoming in the United States in 2013.
The 150-million-year-old skeleton, which is 70 per cent intact, was snapped up by an unnamed French art collector, who promised that the specimen will be lent to a museum.
The dinosaur, which was more than nine metres (30 feet) long and 2.6 metres (8.5 feet) high, lived during the late Jurassic period, said Eric Mickeler, of the auction house Aguttes.
He said it was the “only one of its species” to have yet been discovered.
