The world's first example!The skeleton of Tyrannosaurus is photographed by private buyers

Jimu Journalist Hu Li

Intern Zhang Tianzheng

According to CNN on the 29th, local time, the Sotheby's Sotheby's auction house in New York's first auction Gorgang dinosaur skeleton, finally sold the dinosaur skeleton to a private buyer with a transaction price higher than 6 million US dollars (about 40.47 million yuan). Essence It is reported that this is currently the only Gorgang dragon skeleton in the world for private collection. Scientists are worried that this auction will bring losses to paleontology and will promote the trend of privatization of dinosaurs.

Gorgang's skeletal fossil (source: CNN)

In 2018, the Gorgang Longsheng was excavated in Montana in the United States. It consists of 79 different skeletons, about 3 meters high and about 6 meters long. It is reported that Gorganglon lived on the earth 77 million years ago. It belongs to the close relatives of the Overlord Dragon. It has a huge skull and a bending jagged teeth and a short two -finger forelimb.

According to reporters, the buyer took the skeleton anonymously, and he would have the right to collect and name the skeleton. However, scientists expressed concern about the trend of private collections of dinosaur bones. David Polly, chairman and professor from the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Indiana, said: "People and scientists in the world should enjoy the right to visit and study these skeletons. Now It is regarded as a kind of commodity and is privately collected, so it will not be used for scientific research or public exhibitions. "

Poly said he hoped that private collectors would donate this skeleton to the museum in the future, or share some of the dinosaur skeleton with private collectors with private collectors in the case of museums.

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