First-ever Gorgosaurus skeleton sells at auction for $6.1M to unknown buyer — scientists frustrated

First-ever Gorgosaurus skeleton sells at auction for $6.1M to unknown buyer — scientists frustrated

These fossils fetched a fortune.

Skeleton of a Gorgosaurus sells at auction for $6.1 million - The Boston Globe

The sale was the latest in a series of auctions for dinosaur fossils that have infuriated some scientists who worry about the commercialization of the earth’s evolutionary history.

Full dinosaur skeleton auctioned for over US$ 6 million

The complete skeleton of a dinosaur that lived at the end of the Cretaceous era has been sold Thursday in a Sotheby's auction in New York for US$ 6.1 million to an anonymous bidder who also purchased the rights to name the fossilized creature at will, it was announced.

Gorgosaurus skeleton sells for $6.1 million at Sotheby’s New York auction

Paleontologists say Gorgosaurus was fiercer and faster than the T-Rex, with a stronger bite of around 42,000 newtons compared to 35,000

Sotheby's auctions dinosaur skeleton for $6.1 million

In Sotheby's, a piece of prehistoric time was auctioned off - in the form of a Gorgosaurus skeleton that is more than 70 million years old. But who can now call the still nameless dinosaur his own remains a secret. By Anne Schneider. more Read the message on www.tagesschau.de

Rare Ancient Dinosaur ‘Gorgosaurus’ Skeleton Sold to an Unknown Buyer in the US for 6 Million Dollars

A remarkable prehistoric dinosaur fossil has already been purchased in the US to an undisclosed bidder for slightly above $6 million.