| GEO World | | Complete dino skeleton doesn't sell at NY auction | Updated at: 0709 PST, Sunday, March 22, 2009
NEW YORK: A New York gallery says a 150-million-year-old complete skeleton of a dinosaur has failed to sell at auction.
Josh Chait (CHATE') of I.M. Chait Gallery/Auctioneers says two museums interested in the fossil failed to meet the minimum price of nearly $300,000 during the auction Saturday. He declined to identify the two parties.
Chait says the gallery is still trying broker a deal to sell the 9-foot-long dryosaurus fossil to a museum. Dryosauruses were two-footed, plant-eating creatures.
The auction also included the 7-foot-tall complete skeleton of a 20,000-year-old, juvenile wooly mammoth, and the fossilized skeleton of 20-foot-long marine lizard. Unidentified private collectors bought the mammoth fossil for $55,000 and the lizard fossil for $67,000. |  |
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