Nanotyrannus skeleton goes to auction in New York with £4.5m price tag

Sale makes ‘Jodi’, a smaller relative of T rex, the ‘second most valuable dinosaur ever sold at auction’, Sotheby’s says A rare skeleton of a Nanotyrannus, a smaller relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex, sold at auction in New York this week for $47.3m, making it one of the world’s…

The auction of the rare skeleton comes amid debate in the scientific community about whether dinosaur remains should end up in private hands or public view.