This has been announced by auction house Sotheby’s. Previously, experts from Sotheby’s had counted on $ 20 million. According to the auction house, it is one of the most complete sets of skull bones ever discovered.
The approximately 76 million year old skull, nicknamed “Maximus”, was discovered on private property in the US state of South Dakota. It is about two meters tall and weighs about 90 kilograms.
Last summer in New York, a skeleton of a Gorgosaurus was auctioned for about $6 million, shortly before that a skeleton of the dinosaur species Deinonychus antirrhopus was sold for about $12 million. In 2020, a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton fetched more than $30 million. However, many experts are critical of the auctioning of scientifically valuable skeletons.
(SDA)
Source: Blick
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