Rare Gorgosaurus skeleton up for auction at Sotheby’s
By Reuters
06 July 2022 |
3:17 pm
A finished skeleton of a Gorgosaurus dinosaur that roamed the earth 77 million years ago will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s New York later this month.
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