The Pteranodon is regarded as one of the most feared predators to have ever lived on the planet.
the bidding for the rare Pteranodon skeleton started at $2 million and progressed in $200,000 to $3.2 million successions. The gavel came down at a final price of $3,932,000, making it one of the highest-valued fossil items ever.The skeleton belongs to a fully mature male adult dinosaur, which will be given to the auction winner along with a piece of original rock from the dig site and several small bone fragments.
At 20 feet, the Pteranodon’s wing was double the size of the last dinosaur sold at Koller Auktion in Vienna in 2022. But it is also less than half the size of Pteranodons that have been found earlier, reported New Atlas. Pteranodons were primarily found in North America - now Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Alabama - and would hunt animals far from the coastline by dipping or plunging into the ocean.
The most expensive dinosaur fossil to be sold is the Stan, for a whopping $31.8 million. It will be put up at the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, which is under construction and will be completed by 2025. Another dinosaur fossil that went up for auction this year was a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton called Trinity. It was made up of the bones of three different T-Rexes and was sold for $6.1 million in a rare auction in Switzerland, as was reported by
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