{"id":114466,"date":"2022-07-11T13:52:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T08:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/76-million-year-old-gorgosaurus-skeleton-to-be-sold-at-auction-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T13:54:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T08:24:06","slug":"new-york-auction-gorgosaurus-skeleton-of-76-million-years-old-to-be-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/new-york-auction-gorgosaurus-skeleton-of-76-million-years-old-to-be-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Auction: Gorgosaurus Skeleton of 76 Million Years Old to be Sold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Sotheby\u2019s is auctioning off the fossilized skeleton of a Gorgosaurus, an earlier relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex.\u00a0<br \/>Gorgosaurus was a Cretaceous Period explorer and is a native of western North America.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So Gorgosaurus predated T. rex by at least 10 million years,\u201d Sotheby\u2019s CassandraHatton stated. \u201cYou could say, or paleontologists speculate, that Gorgosaurus was fiercer, actually roamed the earth for a longer time span, anywhere from 10 to 20 million years. We&#8217;re not certain because there&#8217;s no exact end and beginning date for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gorgosaurus roamed during the Cretaceous Period and is native to western North America.<\/p>\n<p>The skeleton that will be auctioned off was unearthed in Montana and measures 10-feet tall and 23-feet long.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are crucial elements of the skull that are present and the occipital area, for example, which is the part that tells us that this is a Gorgosaurus versus, say, a juvenile T. rex or something,\u201d Hatton said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026You find the fossils and you basically glue them back together. It&#8217;s like the biggest puzzle you&#8217;ve ever built.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The winning bidder will receive casting rights so that they can copy the original fossils and sell them to museums.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sotheby\u2019s expects this skeleton to fetch between $5 million and $8 million at auction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sotheby\u2019s is auctioning off the fossilized skeleton of a Gorgosaurus, an earlier relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex.\u00a0Gorgosaurus was a Cretaceous Period explorer and is a native of western North America.\u00a0 &#8220;So Gorgosaurus predated T. rex by at least 10 million years,\u201d Sotheby\u2019s CassandraHatton stated. \u201cYou could say, or paleontologists speculate, that Gorgosaurus was fiercer, actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":114467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/76-Million-Year-Old-Gorgosaurus-Skeleton-to-Be-Sold-at-Auction-in.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114468,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114466\/revisions\/114468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}