T Rex auction cancelled after skeleton doubts raised
Holes in the skull looked similar to those in another T. rex, a US fossil company saidA T. rex skeleton which was expected to fetch up to $25m at auction has been withdrawn after doubts were raised over where parts of it had come from.
However, its president, Peter Larson, told the NYT that parts of Shen looked similar to parts of Stan. When he saw photos of Shen, he told the newspaper, he noticed the skull looked like Stan's, and said it had similar, unique holes in its jaw. It says a lawyer for Mr Larson contacted Christie's, saying that the auction house had not made clear that parts of the skeleton were casts from Stan.
Christie's said 80 of Shen's bones were original. According to Chicago's Field Museum - one of the largest natural history museums in the world - a T. rex would have had about 380 bones in its body. It added that discoveries of complete dinosaur skeletons were very rare.
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