Christie's sold the skeleton of a Deinonychus antirrhopus — a species that became one of the world's most recognizable dinosaurs after the release of the movie "Jurassic Park" — for $12.4 million, with fees, to an undisclosed buyer
This handout image released by auction house Christie's shows "The Raptor", a Deinonychus skeleton which was excavated from Montana. "The Raptor", the skeleton of a Deinonychus antirrhopus, made of 126 fossilized bones and measuring more than 3 meters long, was sold for $12.4 million, including fees, to an Asian client, the auction house said after the sale, without further details; Image: AFP
It may not be a Matisse, or a Warhol, but this multimillion-dollar sale at Christie’s comes from the hand of a different kind of artist: Mother Nature.
Late Thursday, Christie’s sold the skeleton of a Deinonychus antirrhopus — a species that became one of the world’s most recognizable dinosaurs after the release of the movie “Jurassic Park” — for $12.4 million, with fees, to an undisclosed buyer. The auction continues the trend of high-priced fossil sales, a pattern that has irked some paleontologists, who fear that specimens could become lost to science if they are bought by private individuals rather than public institutions.
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