The world's largest tyrant dinosaur skeleton is auctioned

According to the September 7 news from the Daily Mail , an intact dinosaur skeleton (Tyrannosaurus rex) will now be put up for auction at a US Las Vegas company next month, expected to sell. may reach £ 4.8 million.

The source said the skeleton of the male tyrant dinosaur named Samson , about 66 million years old, was discovered in South Dakota in the US and excavated in 1992. Samson has a height of about 4.6 m, 12.2m long, composed of 177 bone segments.

Samson dinosaur skeleton

What is remarkable here is that Samson is the most complete skeleton, more than half of the skeleton in the excavation process is not affected, its head is well preserved. At the same time, Samson is also the largest tyrant dinosaur skeleton ever discovered by humans .

The auction house of Bonhams & Butterfields in Las Vegas will auction the skeleton on October 3, which is expected to cost between £ 3.6 million and £ 4.8 million. The auctioneer said, hoping to have such a museum or organization can buy this skeleton.

Samson dinosaur skull (Photo: Wired)

' Samson is the greatest tyrant dinosaur skeleton discovered .' Thomas Lindgren, who is in charge of Bonhams & Butterfields 'natural history department, said:' Although it is not yet possible to predict who will be the last to own this dinosaur skeleton, we hope the Museum or research institutions can buy it . '

In addition, Thomas Lindgren added that the tyrant dinosaur skeleton is owned by an American collector, but he did not reveal the cause of selling this skeleton.

Antiquities said, " the tyrant dinosaur skeleton about to be sold here may be a new species of tyrant dinosaurs ." Although there have not been adequate studies of tyrannical dinosaurs, experts say it is one of four unnamed tyrant dinosaurs. Peter Larson, a specialist in antiquities, said: ' I personally look forward to the day when I will be able to get a look at this tyrant dinosaur skeleton in Las Vigas .'

Tyrannosaurus is a live carnivorous dinosaur in the late Cretaceous, 145.5 to 65.5 million years ago, its fossils are mainly distributed in North America and Western Canada.