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Triceratops Skeleton to Hit Auction Block
The Wyoming museum's Triceratops skeleton is up for auction amid a booming fossil market with record-high prices, attracting private collectors and institutions.
- The Wyoming Dinosaur Center's long‑exhibited Triceratops, Trey, is now consigned to Joopiter for online auction from March 17 to 31 and is on private viewings in Singapore.
- Rising prices have pushed museum-exhibited specimens toward auction blocks as the fossil market hits record highs, with public museums 'getting totally priced out of an exploding market', Macalester College paleontologist Kristi Curry Rogers said.
- Paleontologist Andre LuJan helped prepare Trey, a skeleton dating to about 66 million years ago, after it was unearthed near Lusk in 1993 by Lee Campbell and Allen Graffham.
- Scientists warn private sales can block research and long‑term access, cautioning that if fossils enter private collections without guaranteed access, 'that data is essentially lost to science'.
- As high-value sales mount, fossils are gaining attention beyond museums, with LuJan saying 'fossils are increasingly viewed as investment assets' after record-breaking results like $44.6 million for Stegosaurus.
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Triceratops skeleton 'Trey' up for auction
A triceratops skeleton that stood in a Wyoming museum for decades will be auctioned off, a rare instance of a museum-exhibited dinosaur going to the auction block just as the market for the prehistoric giants has hit record highs.
·Billings, United States
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Jornal de NotíciasFossil dates over 66 million years ago and, between 17 and 31 March, will be in league on an online platform created by the music Pharrell Williams. Estimate points to the 3.8 to 4.7 million.
·Portugal
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The herbivorous dinosaur skeleton, of 5,3 metres of compression, received visitors at the launch of Wyoming Dinosaurs Centre in 1995 and remained busy until 2023.
·Portugal
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