Global News published this video item, entitled “Remains of largest known triceratops dinosaur fetch nearly US$8-million” – below is their description.
A private, anonymous U.S. collector bought the fossilized remains of “Big John,” the largest triceratops dinosaur ever apparently discovered by paleontologists, for 6.65 million euros (US$7.74 million) at a Paris auction on Thursday.
Big John, named after the owner of the land where the dinosaur’s bones were found, roamed modern-day South Dakota more than 66 million years ago.
The first piece of bone from the supersized skeleton – the skull alone is 2.62 meters long and 2 meters wide – was found in 2014.
By 2015, paleontologists had unearthed 60 per cent of the skeleton, a rare feat, made of over 200 pieces, which were painstakingly put together in Italy, to prepare for the Paris auction.
The skull showed a traumatic lesion, which researchers said was likely the work of another triceratops striking it from behind.
The name triceratops means “three-horned face.”
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