First example of new genus of dinosaur takes second highest price ever at auction
A skeleton of a Cretaceous predator known as a Nanotyrannus was hammered down at $40.5m/£30.4m (or $47.3m including buyer’s premium) at Sotheby’s New York on October 27.
After a 12-minute bidding battle with six would-be buyers competing across online and over the phone…