A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton has sold for more than 1 million euros at auction in the eastern French city of Lyon, reports The Guardian.
The bones of the allosaurus, a ferocious carnivore named Kan whose species went extinct 135 million years ago, fetched 1.1 million euros (£900,000) on Saturday, the Aguttes auction house said.
Discovered in 2013 in the Jurassic-era Morrison Formation in the western US, the specimen is more than 7.5 metres (25f) long and 2.5 metres tall.
The unnamed buyer is French and the skeleton will remain in France and go on public display, an Aguttes spokesman said, without revealing when or where the unveiling would take place.
The buyer, who made the purchase by telephone, “wants to keep the location a surprise”, the spokesman said.
The skeleton is three-quarters complete and shows Kan in a running position with its mouth open.