Rare Nanotyrannus sells at auction for $47.3 million, becoming second most valuable fossil ever

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — A rare skeleton of Nanotyrannus, a smaller T. rex relative, has sold at auction at Sotheby’s in New York for $47.3 million, after a 12-minute bidding war among six contenders. The specimen, named Jodi, is one of only three relatively complete Nanotyrannus skeletons known to science. Blowing well past an estimate of $6 to $9 million, the sale narrowly missed the…

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