Largest triceratops ever unearthed sold for €6.6m at Paris auction
by Agence France-Presse in Paris from Science | The Guardian on (#5QZS0)
US collector falls in love' with 8-metre-long dinosaur found in South Dakota and reassembled in Italy
An 8-metre-long dinosaur skeleton has sold at auction for 6.6m (about 5.5m), more than four times its expected value, to a private collector in the US said to have fallen in love with the largest triceratops ever unearthed.
The 66m-year-old skeleton, affectionately known as Big John, is 60% complete, and was unearthed in South Dakota, in the US, in 2014 and put together by specialists in Italy.
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