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'New' dinosaur species fetches €2m at Paris auction
The Guardian
The skeleton of an extremely rare form of dinosaur has been sold for more than €2m (£1.8m) at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
The bones of what scientists believe may be a new species of the carnivorous allosaurus were discovered during a dig in Wyoming, US, in 2013.
The 150m-year-old skeleton, which is 70% intact, was bought on Monday by an unnamed French art collector, who said the specimen would be loaned to a museum.
The dinosaur, which would have been more than nine metres (30ft) long and 2.6 metres high, lived during the late Jurassic period, said Eric Mickeler, a paleontologist who advises Aguttes auction house. He said it was the only one of its species to have been discovered.
A dinosaur expert, Eric Geneste, had previously said it was impossible to classify the skeleton as an allosaurus because it was more robust, with longer shoulder blades and a different number of teeth.
“There are as many differences between it and an allosaurus as between a human and a gorilla,” he said.