Big Dinosaur Brings Big Money in Britain

A gigantic dinosaur skeleton found in the United States has sold at auction in Britain for $650,000.   The female Diplodocus skeleton, nicknamed Misty, is 19 meters tall and 17 meters long.   Experts say it’s the largest dinosaur sold at auction in Britain.   The auction house in southern England says the unnamed institution that bought the dinosaur will be putting the 150 million year-old fossil on public display.

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