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Real t rex skull for sale12/7/2023 ![]() The mounted fossil cuts a dashing figure, and the animal has an intriguing wound in its frill that healed during its life. While it’s uncommon to find a Triceratops skull together with its skeleton, as was the case with Big John, the dinosaur’s completeness-with 75 percent of its skull and 60 percent of the full skeleton-isn’t unheard of, and its bones vary in quality from beautifully preserved to weathered. On October 21, the Paris-based auction houses Binoche et Giquello and Hôtel Drouot sold Big John on behalf of the Italian fossil firm Zoic for the highest price ever paid at a European auction for a fossil-and the highest price ever paid at auction for a fossil creature other than Tyrannosaurus rex. With a reconstructed skull stretching more than five feet long (155 centimeters), Big John’s noggin is a few inches larger than any Triceratops skull that has been documented in the scientific literature, earning the dinosaur a Guinness World Record. ( Venture inside the homes-and minds-of private fossil collectors in National Geographic magazine.) Some scientists are worried that the growing prices for ancient bones could drive future fossils into private collections, preventing researchers from studying the irreplaceable remains. rex skeleton called Stan sold to an anonymous buyer in a court-mandated auction for $31.8 million-the most ever paid for a fossil. A little more than a year ago, a scientifically important T. With much fanfare and a jaw-dropping sale price of $7.7 million (6.65 million euros) to an anonymous buyer last month, Big John became a big deal-and added fuel to an ongoing, thorny debate among scientists, auctioneers, commercial paleontologists, and private landowners.īig John is just the latest high-profile fossil to sell for millions of dollars. Then, in 2020, he sold the fossil to an Italian firm that prepared it for auction. museum would purchase it-but none came forward. For six years, he held on to the Triceratops in hopes that a U.S. The founder of a South Dakotan firm called PaleoAdventures, which digs up fossils for commercial sale, Stein nicknamed the fossil “Big John” after the owner of the ranch where he found it. Stein realized he was looking at the horns of a Triceratops, and despite the horns’ weathered condition, he could tell that they belonged to a big one. Picture taken September 15, 2020.Walter Stein was exploring a ranch in Perkins County, South Dakota, in 2014 when he stumbled across a root-covered set of bones that had tumbled out of an eroding hillside. Stan was the most recent T Rex skull to be auctioned in the U.S. The head of an approximately 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton named "STAN" after paleontologist Stan Sacrison who first found it, is seen on display ahead of its public auction at Christie's in New York City, New York, U.S., September 15, 2020. This specimen may not be headed to a research institution, though. Marks on the skull are interesting to study “because they give us an idea about what life was like during the Cretaceous period,” Hatton said. “We don’t know that this is what caused the death of this animal, but we can tell that it did have a major battle during its lifetime,” she said. Hatton said two large puncture holes in the skull are evidence of a big fight, probably with another T. The 6 1/2-foot (2-meter) fossil is about 76 million years old and still has most of the external skull bones and numerous teeth, Sotheby’s experts said. Hatton noted, “When you think about it, more people can fit a skull in their home than people who could fit a full dinosaur.” rex’s remains were destroyed over time by erosion, but Sotheby’s experts said the skull was a major find. She called the area “the world capital for T. rex skeletons like Sue and Stan were found, according to Cassandra Hatton, Sotheby’s head of science and popular culture. The skull was excavated in 20 in Harding County, South Dakota, where other T. 9 by an owner who wishes to remain anonymous, the auction house said. The 200-pound (91-kilogram) skull fossil, nicknamed Maximus, is being sold Dec. READ MORE: $12.6 million Mickey Mantle baseball card sets new sports memorabilia auction record NEW YORK (AP) - A Tyrannosaurus rex skull unearthed in South Dakota is expected to sell for $15 million or more at auction in New York next month, officials with Sotheby’s said Tuesday. ![]()
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