66-million-year-old T-rex dino up for grabs in Las Vegas!Byline: ANI London, September 5 (ANI): A 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurs Rex dinosaur is being put up for sale at an auction in Las Vegas. The 170 fossilised Adj. 1. fossilised - set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system" fossilized, ossified inflexible - incapable of change; "a man of inflexible purpose" bones dubbed 'Samson' was said to be the third most complete T. rex skeleton ever discovered. According to San Francisco-based auctioneer Bonhams Bonhams is a privately owned British auction house founded in 1793. It is the third largest auctioneer after Sotheby's and Christie's, and conducts around 700 auctions per year. The firm has London salerooms in New Bond Street and Knightsbridge. and Butterfields, it is expected to fetch more than three million pounds after bids will begin on October 3 at the Venetian hotel-casino, reports Sky News. Tom Lindgren, a natural history specialist for Bonhams and Butterfields, said Samson is one of only 42 specimens found in the last 100 years with more than 10 per cent of the bones. Lindgren added: "This represents the pinnacle of paleontology paleontology (pā'lēəntŏl`əjē) [Gr.,= study of early beings], science of the life of past geologic periods based on fossil remains. ." (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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