T.rex skeleton sells for more than $6m
Named Trinity, the T. rex is said to be one of the biggest and best specimens in the worldA skeleton of a 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex has been sold to a private individual for 5.55 million Swiss francs .The specimen has been described as ''one of the most spectacular T. rex skeletons in existence'', measuring 11.6m long and 3.9m tall.
It's not the first auction of T. rex, or the highest price fetched, but such sales are relatively rare.was withdrawn after doubts were raised over where parts of it had come fromThe name of this skeleton is "293 Trinity", because it is built from three different T. rexes from US dinosaur sites in Montana and Wyoming. It is made up of 293 separate bones from specimens retrieved between 2008 and 2013.
It was sold at the Koller auction house in Zurich. In an interview for the firm's website, Dr Hans-Jacob Siber of The Aathal Dinosaur Museum in Switzerland, described Trinity as a "special beast". Koller hopes it will go on public display, but it is not clear at this stage what the owner's plans are.
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