Swiss auctioneers state initial pricequote of up to $8.7 million is mostlikely ‘very low’ released : 11 Mar 2023 at 21: 45 The T-Rex skeleton Sue went under the hammer in 1997 for $8.4 million. (Photo: AFP) GENEVA: A Tyrannosaurus-Rex skeleton dating back 67 million years will be auctioned in Switzerland next month, marking the veryfirst such sale in Europe, the auction home stated on Saturday. The skeleton called Trinity will go under the hammer in Zurich on April 18, the Koller auction home stated. Towering 3.9 metres in the air, Trinity hasactually been valued at inbetween 6 to 8 million Swiss francs ($6.5 million to $8.7 million), according to the auction brochure. But Christian Link, in charge of natural history souvenirs at Koller, informed AFP he thought that was a “very low pricequote”. Trinity is “one of the most incredible T-Rex skeletons in presence, a unspoiled and remarkably broughtback fossil,” the auction home stated. The sale would mark “the veryfirst time in Europe and just the 3rd time aroundtheworld (that) a skeleton of an whole T-Rex dinosaur of extraordinary quality will be used at auction”. Koller pointed to a 2021 researchstudy in the clinical journal Nature showing that o
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