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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Dinosaur skeleton to auction for $6-8m
A 66 million year-aged collectible will be going under the hammer at the Las Vegas Strip on Saturday.
Auctioneer Bonhams & Butterfields is giving natural history buffs the chance to possess "Samson", a fossilised female Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Samson's 170 bones were found out 17 years before in South Dakota, US, and make-up more than half the skeleton of the 40-feet-long, 7.5 ton Dinosaur.
Bids are hoped to apex $6m when it is sold at the Venetian hotel-casino in Las Vegas, on October 3.
The sale will contain hundreds of Dinosaur bone fragments in plastic bags - these separate bones could be added to Samson if experts are willing to invest the necessary thousands of hours.
The T. Rex is being vend among 41 other lots of museum-ready pieces, including a 28-foot duck-billed Dinosaur skeleton and a Seven-foot Fossil shark.
The collection will be on public preview for two weeks prior to the auction.
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