Christie's has called off the auction of a 15-foot tall Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton days before it was due to go under the hammer in Hong Kong.
Christie's has called off the auction of a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, the auction house told Agence France-Presse Monday, days before it was due to go under the hammer in Hong Kong.
Christie's said in a statement to AFP that Shen -- a 3,100-pound skeleton -- was withdrawn from its autumn auctions week that start in Hong Kong on Friday.Excavated from Montana, Shen stands 15 feet tall and 39 feet long and is thought to be an adult male that lived about 67 million years ago. It is very rare for complete dinosaur skeletons to be found, according to The Field Museum in Chicago, one of the largest natural history museums in the world.
The Black Hills Institute holds the intellectual property rights to Stan, even after its sale in 2020, and it sells replicas of that skeleton.
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