Now here's something that will certainly make any house unique. On April 16th, Christie's will be hosting an auction in Paris, featuring 150 items from natural history collections.
The showcase item of the night is a Triceratops skeleton, expected to fetch nearly $750,000. The skeleton comes from a private family collection.
Also on sale at this unique auction will be a sabre-toothed tiger cranium, a tyrannosaurus egg and fossilized giant shark teeth.
Auctioning the Ancient
Bid on a Triceratops Skeleton
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