Dinosaur skeleton of possible new species sells for $2.3 million

The skeleton of an extremely rare kind of dinosaur has sold for $2.3 million in Paris, France. The 150-million-year-old bones sold during an auction June 4 at the city’s famous Eiffel Tower. The company holding the auction said the buyer was a French art collector. The seller was identified only as a British businessman. The skeleton is described as about 70 percent complete. It measures nine meters long and about two-and-a-half meters tall. The bones were discovered in 2013 in the western American state of Wyoming.

Scientists recognized the skeleton as belonging to a large, meat-eating dinosaur. But it has not been identified as a specific kind. Some scientists have said they believe it could be a new species.

The Aguttes auction house described the skeleton as being from the late Jurassic period. It has similarities to the Allosaurus meat-eating dinosaur group. Other Allosaurus skeletons have been discovered in the same area as the one sold in Paris.

Scientists recognized the skeleton as belonging to a large, meat-eating dinosaur, but it was not identified as a specific kind.

However, the auction company said that European paleontologists who examined the skeleton found major differences from known Allosaurus.

Aliqismet Badalov,

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