Rare dinosaur skeleton sells for $30 million at Sotheby's 'Geek Week' auction

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Rare dinosaur skeleton sells for $30 million at Sotheby's 'Geek Week' auction  The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton went for more than $30 million.   READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/07/17/rare-dinosaur-skeleton-sells-for-30-million-at-sothebys-geek-week-auction  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00Prices at Sotheby's Geek Week auction in New York were out of this world on Wednesday,

00:05with a meteorite from Mars selling for more than $5 million.

00:10The largest piece of the red planet ever found on Earth was part of a sale of rare geological

00:16and archaeological objects.

00:18But the star of the show was a juvenile dinosaur skeleton that went for more than $30 million,

00:25far beyond its original estimate of $4 million to $6 million.

00:29Specialists assembled nearly 140 fossil bones to recreate the skeleton, which is more than

00:362 metres tall and 3 metres long.

00:39Cetrasaurus dinosaurs were bipeds with short arms that appear similar to the Tyrannosaurus

00:44rex.

00:45This one is thought to be from the late Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago.

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