Dodo skeleton could fetch £500,000 in rare auction

95%-complete composite skeleton of extinct bird is first such item to go on public sale for 100 years

The first near-complete skeleton of a dodo to go on public sale for 100 years is anticipated to fetch up to 500,000 when it goes under the hammer next week.

The 95%-complete composite skeleton, put together over a period of two decades by a private collector, will be auctioned in Billingshurst, West Sussex, on Tuesday.