Nanotyrannus skeleton auctioned for $47.3 million

A skeleton belonging to a smaller relative of Tyrannosaurus rex was sold at auction Tuesday for nearly $47.3 million, far beyond projections. It was the latest lucrative sale of a fossil coming out of the field of commercial paleontology.

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