"Skinny", a fossil of a large herbivorous dinosaur, cousin of the Diplodocus, currently sits in a living room of the InterContinental Paris-Le Grand.
“Skinny”, a fossil of a large herbivorous dinosaur, cousin of the Diplodocus, currently sits in a living room of the InterContinental Paris-Le Grand.
They are beginning to become familiar with Parisian auction houses. Dinosaurs invade the auction world and make prices tremble. Skinny is the last one. 150 million years old, this sauropod, what remains of it, stands proudly on its two legs, from the top of its six meters.
This skeleton of the great herbivorous dinosaur, cousin of the diplodocus, strutted around for a few days in the living room of the former Grand Hotel, now the InterContinental Paris-Le Grand, before passing under the hammer on Thursday at 3pm. The entire assembly was done by expert Nicolas Tourment. With its long neck, its large body of 13 meters long and its almost cute head, this Jurassic specimen is estimated between 1.2 and 1.8 million euros (excluding expenses) by the French auction house Aguttes, which has held several dinosaur sales in recent years.