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Huge T-Rex dinosaur skeleton Stan sells for record-breaking £24.5m at auction
The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxA T-Rex skeleton has sold for a record-breaking £24.5million at auction.It is the most expensive dinosaur fossil ever to be sold after going under the hammer at Christie's auction house in New York.The Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, named Stan after Stan Sacrison, the amateur palaeontologist who discovered it in South Dakota in 1987, is a whopping 40ft long and 13ft high.The anonymous buyer spared no expense in getting their offer accepted over the phone after a tense 20 minutes of bidding.The pre-estimate auction price was only £6million.The structure is an astonishing 67 million years old and is made up of 188 bones and peaked
