{"id":43525,"date":"2022-07-29T14:33:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T11:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=43525"},"modified":"2022-07-29T14:33:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T11:33:15","slug":"a-rare-dinosaur-skeleton-has-been-sold-for-6-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=43525","title":{"rendered":"A rare dinosaur skeleton has been sold for $6.1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 77-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton was sold for $6.1 million, making it one of the most valuable ever sold at auction,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 29 . July . 2022 | World News  Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is about the skeleton of a gorgosaurus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Gorgosaurus is a Tyrannosaurus theropod dinosaur. So it&#8217;s in the same family as Tyrannosaurus (T-Rex). This specimen came to us from Montana, the Judith River Formation,&#8221; said Sotheby&#8217;s senior vice president and head of science and popular culture Cassandra Gatton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Because it was found in the US, that means we can actually sell it, and that&#8217;s part of what makes this dinosaur so rare. Only a few specimens have been found. They&#8217;re all in museums. It&#8217;s the only one that&#8217;s for sale.&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The skeleton measures about 3 meters in height and 6.7 meters in length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This 77-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton has sold for $6.1 million at Sotheby&#8217;s in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Ukrgate<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 77-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton was sold for $6.1 million, making it one of the most valuable ever sold at auction,\u00a0 KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 29 . July . 2022 | World News Details It is about the skeleton of a gorgosaurus. &#8220;Gorgosaurus is a Tyrannosaurus theropod dinosaur. So it&#8217;s in the same family as Tyrannosaurus (T-Rex). This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10474],"tags":[618,8177,813,12189,996,1000,1024,1064],"class_list":["post-43525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world-news","tag-million","tag-rare","tag-russia","tag-skeleton","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-news","tag-ukrgate","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43538,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43525\/revisions\/43538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}