Rare dinosaur skeleton for sale – along with the right to name species

Skeleton of unknown theropod is 70% complete and expected to fetch more than a1.2m in Paris auction

Anyone with a spare million euros or two will have the opportunity to not only own a unique species of dinosaur skeleton next month, but to name it.

Scientists say the skeleton of the species of theropod - or three-toed dinosaur - dates from the late Jurassic period about 155m years ago, give or take a million or so years.