The 145-million-year-old remains of a giant dinosaur are set to be auctioned to private bidders in France this November. Expected to fetch millions, the skeleton could set a new benchmark in the booming fossil market, but experts raise concerns about having fossils being sold privately.
Around 66 million years ago, dinosaurs had a very bad day.
But the remains of one of these extinct dinosaurs, a 145 million year old skeleton, will be up for sale in a private auction in France this November.Pierre Vernet is a curious visitor who went to have a look. The remains are believed to be those of an apatosaurus, extremely large herbivores that populated North America around 150 million years ago, in what scientists call the late Jurassic period.
It was discovered in 2018 in Wyoming, but unearthing all the remains took 3 years, and after that they had to be taken for restoration. “Auctions have been going on for twenty years now. It was only in the media with the T-Rex that everyone knows, and there was a market where prices were always more or less the same. And then, over the last two years or so, the records just kept on coming. Eight of the top 10 auction sales have taken place in the last two years.”
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