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It is the largest known Triceratops skeleton, according to the team that assembled the fossil. Big John's 2021 auction price of € 6.6 million ( US$ 7.7 million) made it the most expensive Triceratops skeleton; its high price signaled increasing demand for dinosaur fossils among private collectors and prompted discussion about the drawbacks of ...
Guinness World Records claimed it was the largest known Triceratops skeleton, [62] with a skull reconstructed to be 2.62 metres (8.6 ft) long. Most expensive Triceratops sold, and most expensive fossil sold in Europe. [63] [61] Hector Deinonychus: Around 50% of a skeleton with 126 preserved bones, missing all or most of the skull
Sue [a] (stylized: SUE), officially designated FMNH PR 2081, is one of the largest, [b] most extensive, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossils ever found, at over 90 percent recovered by bulk. [4] FMNH PR 2081 was discovered on August 12, 1990, [5] by American explorer and fossil collector Sue Hendrickson, after whom it is named.
The area could turn out to be one of the world's biggest dinosaur track sites, she added. The discovery will feature in the BBC television documentary "Digging for Britain" , due to be broadcast ...
Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new dinosaur species in Australia, one of the largest found in the world, more than a decade after cattle farmers first uncovered bones of the animal.
The UK's biggest ever dinosaur trackway site has been discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire. About 200 huge footprints, which were made 166 million years ago, criss-cross the limestone floor.
Like all chasmosaurines, Triceratops had a large skull relative to its body size, among the largest of all land animals. The largest-known skull, specimen MWC 7584 (formerly BYU 12183), is estimated to have been 2.5 meters (8.2 ft) in length when complete [28] and could reach almost a third of the length of the entire animal. [29]
The latest dinosaur being mounted at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles is not only a member of a new species — it's also the only one found on the planet whose bones are green, according ...