Small dinosaur fit for the living room to be sold at Paris auction
A SMALL dinosaur skeleton will go on sale in Paris next month and is estimated to sell for between 400,000 (S$561,612) and 500,000 euros, auction house Giquello said.
Unlike huge dinosaur skeletons sold at earlier auctions, the fossilised iguanodon skeleton stands just 1.3 metre high and is 3 metres long. It was discovered in 2019 in Colorado, US, during road-building on private land.
“It’s a dinosaur for a living room,” auctioneer Alexandre Giquello said, referring to the size.
The creature is estimated to have lived more than 150 million years ago. Its remains have been restored by a team of Italian palaeontologists.
The skeleton will be auctioned on Oct 20.
In 2020, the same auction house sold a 3.5 metre high and 10 metre long dinosaur skeleton for 3 million euros. REUTERS
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