A T-Rex skeleton is expected to fetch a monster price when it goes under the hammer next month. The specimen, put together from the remains of three dinosaurs, will be the first complete Tyrannosaurus rex bones to be sold in Europe.
Aged at approximately 67million years old, the catchily named “TRX-293 Trinity” is expected to fetch £4.5million to £7.2million.
Zurich-based Koller Auctions say it is only the third time that a full skeleton of such “exceptional quality” has been put up for sale.
Trinity is 38ft (11.6m) long and 12.8ft (3.9m) high – slightly taller than a double-decker bus. The bones were found in Montana and Wyoming, USA, between 2008 and 2013.
It took more than seven years to excavate, clean and restore them all.
Koller Auctions said: “It is among the finest specimens of one of the largest terrestrial predators ever to inhabit the Earth.”
The auction will be held in Zurich on April 18.
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