First complete dinosaur skeleton to be sold in Britain It could be a prop straight from the Jurassic Park film set and now experts hope a Hollywood star will snap up the first complete dinosaur skeleton to be sold in Britain. The massive 17-metre long Diplodocus longus is expected to fetch as much as £600,000 pounds, 150 million years after walking the earth. Natural history expert and author Errol Fuller, who is overseeing the sale by Summers Place Auctions, of Billingshurst, West Sussex, said: “There are quite a lot of emerging museums in the Far East, particularly in China, who may be interested. I think there might be some private buyers who may wish to put in a bid. A couple of Hollywood stars have bought dinosaurs in the past. It would be a wonderful thing if you were a real rich person who could build a big outhouse for it. I think it’s much better than a collector‘s car worth millions – and much cheaper. It’s far better to show something this rare to your friends at dinner parties. I think it’s a wonderful piece of history. There is only a handful like these in the world but this […]
