The world's biggest Triceratops fossil ever found, a 66-million-year-old skeleton affectionately dubbed 'Big John,' has sold for €6.6 million ($7.7 million) — smashing its high auction estimate of €1.5 million ($1.7 million).
The sale took place on Thursday afternoon at the Drouot auction house in Paris, where Big John was presented alongside a treasure trove of fossils, meteorites and other natural history artifacts.The skeleton was first discovered in South Dakota by geologist Walter W. Stein Bill in 2014. It is thought the dinosaur lived in Laramidia, an enormous, ancient continent that, today, would have stretched between Alaska and Mexico.
After excavation, the muddied dinosaur remains were then restored in Italy, where archeologists were able to see its true size. Big John has a nearly 9-foot-long skull that stretches just over six-and-a-half feet wide, and the skeleton is more than 60% complete. According to the UK's Natural History Museum, Triceratops skulls are an evolutionary triumph and some of the"
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