[Rockhounds] T. rex skeleton sells for more than $6m

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

*A skeleton of a 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex has been sold to a
private individual for 5.55 million Swiss francs ($6.2m; £5m).*

This is the first time a T. rex has been auctioned in Europe.

The specimen has been described as ''one of the most spectacular T. rex
skeletons in existence'', measuring 11.6m long and 3.9m tall.

Scientists are concerned about the increasing number of dinosaur fossils
ending up in private collections.

It's not the first auction of T. rex, or the highest price fetched, but
such sales are relatively rare.

Last year a T. rex skeleton which was expected to fetch up to $25m (£21m)
at auction was withdrawn after doubts were raised over where parts of it
had come from <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-63700297>.

The 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.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65314219