![]() ![]() ![]() The marine reptile lived about 190 million years ago and is thought to have inspired the legend of the Loch Ness monster due to its long neck, small head, and flippers matching descriptions of the legendary sea creature. Sotheby’s is also auctioning off a skeleton of a plesiosaur, which was discovered in the 1990s in Gloucestershire, England. “Generally, if you go to a museum and you find a specimen that’s super well preserved, it’s going to be something on the smaller side.”Īccording to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, pteranodon skeletons are generally incomplete due to the fact that its “bones are hollow and thin-walled therefore, they were usually crushed flat.” “To get something of this size with the level of preservation is incredibly rare,” Cassandra Hatton, Sotheby’s head of science and popular culture, told the Associated Press. A Grand Piano Once Owned by John Lennon Is Coming Up for SaleĪccording to a release, “almost all of the original fossil bones remain essentially unrestored, meaning that artificial filler was not used to replace missing bone sections.”
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