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.

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.

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