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Dinosaur Auction In Las Vegas

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the seven-thousand-years-old dept.

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."

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  1. Trolls... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    From TFA:

    Fifty-one million years after the dinosaurs became extinct, Carcharocles megalodon trolled the Earthâ(TM)s seas as an apex predator

    Great, as if trolls on Slashdot weren't enough...

  2. Is our economy so bad... by Last_Available_Usern · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ..that a lot of these items are going to disappear into the hands of private collectors instead of the museums who should have them? It's sad to think of finds of this caliber not being publicly available. Maybe it's time we energize a little more funding into the arts and history.

    1. Re:Is our economy so bad... by Whorhay · · Score: 5, Interesting

      When I was a kid a golf course near where I lived was doing some digging as part of renovating their course. They discovered what has since been known as the Burning Tree Mastadon. The lead archaeologist Paul E. Hooge ended up being expelled from many of the professional organizations he was a member of, because he helped the owner find a buyer. This was an amazing find and no museums were interested in giving anything like a fair value for it. It was eventually sold for $600,000 to someone in Japan.