76 million-year-old dinosaur skeleton to be auctioned in NYC

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    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/us/gorgosaurus-sothebys-auction.html

    Skeleton of a Gorgosaurus Sells at Auction for $6.1 Million

    .....A robust skeleton of a Gorgosaurus, a Tyrannosaurus rex relative that roamed the Earth about 80 million years ago, sold at a Sotheby’s auction on Thursday for $6.1 million.

    .....Living in the late Cretaceous era, about 10 million years before the T. rex, the Gorgosaurus was smaller but most likely faster than the tyrant lizard king, with serrated teeth for slicing the flesh of its prey with ease, hawklike eyesight and a tendency to hunt in packs.

    .....The Gorgosaurus was a remarkable animal, several paleontologists said. With striking horns in front of its eyes and a smaller set behind its eyes, “they would have looked pretty impressive,” Thomas Carr, a vertebrate paleontologist at Carthage College, said in an interview. Like T. rex, they had short arms with two fingers.
     
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