00:00I guess a pre-sale auctione of 3-5 million pounds
00:03and the sky is the limit for a specimen like that.
00:06So I'm with the pecs explanation.
00:08Most of the other animals I can do in the sky are very rare
00:12which is just a winged bag.
00:40The spike is a Koenignathid which is a type of dinosaur
00:43that last roamed the Earth 66 to 68 million years ago
00:46just before the asteroid hit that wiped out all the dinosaurs
00:50and he's just an incredible fossil.
00:53We've never had anything like this before.
00:54It's the debut of the group at auction.
00:56He carries a pre-sale estimate of 3-5 million pounds
00:59and is just a wonder to behold.
01:02It's not as if the bones are littering the floor everywhere.
01:05Fossils are incredibly rare.
01:07For an animal to die and be preserved for 66 million years
01:10needs a complete conspiracy of geological forces
01:14and certainly when spike was found it was a surprise.
01:18Nothing like this has quite been seen before.
01:20Maybe, just maybe, spike could be a new species.
01:23It doesn't look like anything else that's been seen.
01:26So it's an incredibly exciting moment, that discovery.
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