Dinosaur Auction In Las Vegas

Xerfas writes "If you ever dreamed of owning your own dinosaur, here's your chance. Possibly the most impressive natural history auction ever is set to take place Oct. 3 at the Venetian Casino in Las Vegas. Here you can find everything from the T.rex to a duck-billed dinosaur and a mammoth skeleton."

Comments

Re:IT Dept

[Maquis196]

Thats nothing, sometimes you can just ask for a +5 mod.

How about it mods? +5 informative?

--Maquis196

Re:But who is selling?

[SpinyNorman]

They come from different places. The description of the duck bill dinosaur (hadrosaur) says it had been owned by a Japanese museum which closed, and was then bought by a private American collector who is now selling it.

There's another article here about the auction which mentions the T.Rex also currently being privately owned:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32705922/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Sign of the recession I guess that some fat cat has to sell his T.Rex.

Re:Pedantic Note: Troll Vs Trawl

[Hatta]

Trolling is a method of fishing where one or more fishing lines, baited with lures or bait fish, are drawn through the water. This may be behind a moving boat, or by slowly winding the line in when fishing from a static position, or even sweeping the line from side-to-side, eg when fishing from a jetty. Trolling is used to catch pelagic fish such as salmon, mackerel and kingfish.

Trolling can be phonetically confused with trawling, a completely different method of fishing, where a net (trawl) is drawn through the water instead of lines. Trolling is used both for recreational and commercial fishing whereas trawling is used mainly for commercial fishing.

From Wikipedia