Not only are the bones arranged as they once were in life, but the dinosaurs are practically intertwined
Illustration by Anthony HutchingsBut that’s about to change. After years of legal battles that left the fossil locked away in labs or warehouses, the famed find is headed to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh. Thanks to donors including private foundations and the city, county, and state governments, the nonprofit Friends of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is buying the Dueling Dinosaurs on the museum’s behalf for an undisclosed sum.
“It’s going to be a very iconic specimen,” adds paleontologist Kirk Johnson, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.The story of the Dueling Dinosaurs’ discovery and long journey to the NCMNS is every bit as dramatic as the fossil itself. In 2013, the London-based auctioneer Bonhams persuaded Phipps and the Murrays to try auctioning off the fossil. Despite mixed feelings about giving up control over the buyer’s identity, Phipps and the Murrays had significant costs to recoup, and they agreed. But, with bids failing to reach the $6 million minimum bid. The Dueling Dinosaurs left the New York City auction house and entered a storage facility on Long Island.
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