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[b]A nearly complete Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton, the Asian cousin of the T-Rex dinosaur, is up for sale Sunday. Starting bid: $850,000.[/b]
[quote]In a showroom on the west side of Manhattan, minerals worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, tufts of mammoth hair, pieces of the moon, not to mention a nearly complete Tyrannosaur skeleton, are being unpacked and arranged.
On Sunday (May 20), Heritage Auctions plans to auction these items off, but for the three days before, they are on public display here.
The headliner is a nearly complete Tyrannosaurus bataar, fully prepared and mounted. This animal, whose remains measure 8 feet (2.4 meters) tall and 24 feet (7.3 meters) long, was an Asian relative to the infamous North American Tyrannosaurus rex. The few pieces missing have been replaced with casts.
"The coolest thing about dinosaurs are the claws and the teeth," said David Herskowitz, director of Natural History at Heritage Auctions. "Here you have like 80 percent of the claws are real, and 75 percent of the teeth are real."
The starting bid is set at $850,000, but Herskowitz estimates the value of this dinosaur at $1.4 million to $1.8 million. The sale was announced about four months ago, which isn't much time to raise money, he said, but added that the specimen is a good investment.
"Rarely [are] there more than two or three dinosaurs on the market at any given time because it takes two years and a couple $100,000 to prep and mount these things. … even just a 50 percent specimen," he said.
The last nearly complete tyrannosaurus to go up for auction, a T. rex named Sue after the fossil hunter who found it, fetched $8.36 million in 1997 and now resides in Chicago's Field Museum. The museum bought Sue with help from Disney, McDonald's, and private donors, according to the museum's website.
"Museums especially in this country really don't have the money to spend on specimens, so they rely on philanthropists," Herskowitz said. "So we are hoping that a philanthropist or a museum trustee would be able to put up the money and purchase this, and then donate it to a museum." He added that there are also "a lot of private collectors that would buy such a specimen. If you think about it, every major natural history museum in America was originally a private collection."
Other dinosaur fossils include a duck-billed dinosaur skull and a strange-looking ankylosaurid skull. A table made with a slab of stone containing a fossil fish, a cast of one of the few existing dodo skeletons and an elephant-bird egg are among the many other relics of living things being sold.
The proverbial tyrannosaurus of the minerals is a nugget of gold in quartz weighing more than 70 ounces (2 kilograms), discovered in 1989 in Arizona by a man who dubbed it "Fred."
The meteorites include a small dark chunk of rock that originated on Mars and pieces of the moon.
Everything going up for auction on Sunday (May 20) is on display, except for the taxidermy.
The public can view these items at Center 548 (548 W. 22nd Street, between 10th Ave. and West Street, 4th floor) in New York City from Thursday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.[/quote]
[url]http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0517/For-sale-Tyrannosaurus-skeleton-at-NYC-auction[/url]
rawr
I would love to own that
I'd put it by my stuffed grizzly in the parlor
I'd put that in my back yard to trip the fuck out of people driving by my house.
How can you disagree? It's a general statement about what I'd do with it, not a certain take on a topic.
[quote]"Rarely [are] there more than two or three dinosaurs on the market at any given time because it takes two years and a couple $100,000 to prep and mount these things. … even just a 50 percent specimen," he said.[/quote]
holy shit there's a market for buying dinosaur remains?
if I ever become rich I know what I'm collecting
[editline]17th May 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=farmatyr;35993631]Indiana Jones Picture[/QUOTE]
God damn i was just about to post that
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It does though.
Belongs in a museum.
If I ever become insanely rich, this is the one crazy expensive purchase I'd make. I'd have an average-sized house in a nice neighborhood with good-but-not-really-good cars and a freakin' dinosaur in the living room.
This isn't Tyrannosaurus, it's Tarbosaurus. There is only one species under the genus Tyrannosaurus, though some would like bataar to be under Tyrannosaurus instead of Tarbosaurus. Go sensationalism.
This actually does belong in a museum.
[QUOTE=RR_Raptor65;35995726]This isn't Tyrannosaurus, it's Tarbosaurus. There is only one species under the genus Tyrannosaurus, though some would like bataar to be under Tyrannosaurus instead of Tarbosaurus. Go sensationalism.[/QUOTE]
I was waiting for you to post to share your dinosaur knowledge.
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;35995356]Belongs in a museum.[/QUOTE]
No, needs to be revived.
[QUOTE=dass;35995829]No, needs to be revived.[/QUOTE]
Let's hope it doesn't wind up becoming parts for that guy's next Ipad.
[i]"A nearly complete Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton, the Asian cousin of the T-Rex dinosaur, is up for sale Sunday. Starting bid: $850,000.[/i]
[i]"A nearly complete Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton, the Asian cousin of the T-Rex dinosaur..."[/i]
[i]"Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton, the Asian cousin of the T-Rex dinosaur..."[/i]
[i]"The Asian cousin of the T-Rex dinosaur..."[/i]
So it's what, 5-6 feet tall?
:v:
Seriously though, this is one of my personal dreams.
Not one of those "LOL I WANNA OWNA DINOSAWR SKELETIN BCUZ RAWR :3" dreams, but an honest to God "I WILL knock this off my bucket list at some point" dreams.
Dinosaurs are and always will be fucking awesome.
Reminds me of a story I heard on a Simpsons commentary (the one where they find the angel skeleton). One of the guys said they went to a fossil auction where they were selling Trilobites. Right before the auction starts, who should walk in but Nicolas "HOW'D IT GET BURNED?" Cage. He proceeds to sit there and buy every. single. Trilobite.
Every single one.
Just walks in, buys EVERYTHING, and leaves.
:v:
[QUOTE=BanthaFodder;35996106]Seriously though, this is one of my personal dreams.
Not one of those "LOL I WANNA OWNA DINOSAWR SKELETIN BCUZ RAWR :3" dreams, but an honest to God "I WILL knock this off my bucket list at some point" dreams.
Dinosaurs are and always will be fucking awesome.[/QUOTE]
Start saving up:
[url]http://www.bhigr.com/store/product.php?productid=46&cat=2&page=1[/url]
[QUOTE=MangoJuice;35993599] pieces of the moon[/QUOTE]
I thought that the US government/NASA owned all recovered moon rocks?
I find it dumb he lists what it was valued at. Now anyone who read the article won't want to go above that price range.
if i were rich, i'd put that on my front lawn, and protect it with some laser beams n shit
I feel like some douchebag trying to show off will get this, not caring about anything but waving his dick around.
[QUOTE=Reds;36001064]I feel like some douchebag trying to show off will get this, not caring about anything but waving his dick around.[/QUOTE]
what else are you going to do with it
use it as a fucking dildo?
it's a skeleton a guy who buys it is either going to be a museum owner or someone who would like to own a Tyrannosaurus skeleton
Asian T.Rex? What the hell?
There were no T. Rexes on Asia, T. Rex was a strictly north-american species, there was probably some confusion with another tyrannosauroid because a lot of North American Cretaceous dinosaurs families also lived on Asia
[editline]18th May 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=RR_Raptor65;35995726]This isn't Tyrannosaurus, it's Tarbosaurus. There is only one species under the genus Tyrannosaurus, though some would like bataar to be under Tyrannosaurus instead of Tarbosaurus. Go sensationalism.[/QUOTE]
Tarbosaurus was from Mongolia, so that's probably it, yeah
I know a guy who'd buy this. After all, he has the funds.
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[QUOTE=Jorori;36001773]Asian T.Rex? What the hell?
There were no T. Rexes on Asia, T. Rex was a strictly north-american species, there was probably some confusion with another tyrannosauroid because a lot of North American Cretaceous dinosaurs families also lived on Asia
[editline]18th May 2012[/editline]
Tarbosaurus was from Mongolia, so that's probably it, yeah[/QUOTE]
I have a feeling someone told the writer there was going to be a Tyrannosaur[B]id[/B] up for action and he just ran with it.
Thomas Carr considers T. bataar a species of Tyrannosaurus but not everyone does.
I would buy it, make a mold, and then start selling the molds to people for accents in their house.
[QUOTE=RR_Raptor65;35995726]This isn't Tyrannosaurus, it's Tarbosaurus. There is only one species under the genus Tyrannosaurus, though some would like bataar to be under Tyrannosaurus instead of Tarbosaurus. Go sensationalism.[/QUOTE]
everything I know about dinosaurs I learned from jurrasic park [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/HhF1H.gif[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Cypher_09;35995734]This actually does belong in a museum.[/QUOTE]
Museum belonging to an evil mastermind living inside a volcano with his dinosaur cloning facility that is.
[QUOTE=RR_Raptor65;36004239]I have a feeling someone told the writer there was going to be a Tyrannosaur[B]id[/B] up for action and he just ran with it.
Thomas Carr considers T. bataar a species of Tyrannosaurus but not everyone does.[/QUOTE]
These are the same kind of journalist that call "T. Rex's cousin" or "Mini T. Rex" to any kind of newly-discovered theropod (Or even non-related groups), so it wouldn't be surprising if that was the case :v:
Fuck, if I had tons of money to go around I would so buy this and donate it to some museum here in Finland
[QUOTE=Reds;36001782]I know a guy who'd buy this. After all, he has the funds.
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*Insert Doug Walker here*
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