Mar 20th, 2009 | NEW YORK -- A bit of the Jurassic era is going on sale this weekend when a gallery auctions off a 150-million-year-old complete skeleton of a dinosaur.
The rare fossil of the 9-foot-long dryosaurus could bring up to $500,000, according to the I.M. Chait Gallery.
Josh Chait, who runs the gallery, said the fossil was taken from private land in Wyoming in 1993 and is being sold by Utah-based Western Paleontological Laboratories.
Other fossils for sale include a 20,000-year-old wooly mammoth, measuring 7 feet tall and 15 feet long, and a 20-foot-long giant marine lizard. The dinosaur skeletons are part of what the gallery is billing as a natural history auction.
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On The Net:
I.M. Chait Gallery/Auctioneers: http://www.chait.com/
Western Paleontological Laboratories: http://www.westernpaleolabs.com/
http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/entertainment/2009/03/20/D97205M00_prehistoric_bones_sale/index.html
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