A T-Rex goes under the hammer in Zurich

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If you want to buy the 11.6 meters long, 3.9 meters high and 67 million years old skeleton, you have to dig into your pocket. According to a report in the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” on Saturday, the starting price is 5 million CHF. Responsible auction house Koller’s catalog even gives a price range of up to 8 million francs.

Behind the auction titled “Out of This World” – among other things, a meteorite fragment and an astronaut suit will go up for auction – is a former professional magician named Christian Link. He named the skeleton “Trinity”.

This name is no accident. That’s because the skeleton was assembled from three specimens excavated from 2008 to 2013 in the Hell Creek and Lance Creek formations in the US states of Montana and Wyoming. As a result, only 50 percent of the bones are original, which according to the auction catalog corresponds to a good value.

Trading in dinosaur skeletons is not to be condemned

The sale of dinosaur skeletons to private individuals is not without controversy. Scientists fear that this could cause them to miss out on valuable research material.

The auction house tries to refute this criticism. The catalog quotes the collection curator of the planned new Natural History Museum at the University of Zurich as saying that the dinosaur skeleton trade is comparable to the art trade. Sooner or later, most of the samples sold privately would appear in a public setting.

The skeleton will be installed at the Tonhalle in Zurich in the coming weeks. By appointment, it will be exhibited there from March 29. (SDA)

Source :Blick