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Christie's to Put Tyrannosaurus Rex Skeleton Up for Auction

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   The British auction house Christie's announced this week that it would
   sell the largest and most complete known skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus
   rex in early October.

   The auction house said the dinosaur skeleton is nearly 12 meters long
   and just under 5 meters tall. It has been known as Stan, named after
   amateur paleontologist Stan Sacrison, who discovered it in the upper
   Midwestern U.S. state of South Dakota in 1987.

   Christie's science and natural history specialist James Hyslop said
   scientists that looked at the bones initially misidentified them as
   belonging to a triceratops, a more common dinosaur discovery.

   It was not until Sacrison took the remains to the Black Hills Institute
   of Geological Research in 1992 that anyone realized what he had found.

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