Gorgosaurus skeleton sells for $6.1 million at Sotheby’s New York auction
The Hindu
Paleontologists say Gorgosaurus was fiercer and faster than the T-Rex, with a stronger bite of around 42,000 newtons compared to 35,000
The first skeleton of a Gorgosaurus dinosaur to go under the hammer sold for $6.1 million at auction in New York Thursday, Sotheby’s said.
The specimen is 10 feet tall (three meters) and 22 feet long, and had been expected to fetch between $5 million and $8 million.
“The result places the Gorgosaurus among the most valuable dinosaurs ever sold at auction, and establishes a new benchmark for a Gorgosaurus skeleton,” Sotheby’s said in a statement.
The Gorgosaurus roamed the earth approximately 77 million years ago.
A typical adult weighed about two tonnes, slightly smaller than its more famous relative, the Tyrannosaurus rex.
Paleontologists say it was fiercer and faster than the T-Rex, with a stronger bite of around 42,000 newtons compared to 35,000.
The skeleton was discovered in the Judith River Formation near Havre, in the US state of Montana in 2018.
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