A Ceratosaurus skeleton sold for millions of dollars at auction Wednesday. It had previously been owned by Thanksgiving Point.

In what has become the third-highest price ever paid for a dinosaur skeleton, a 150 million-year-old juvenile ceratosaurus skeleton sold at Sotheby's

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton went for more than $30 million.

As the second most complete skeleton in existence, the “beautifully mineralized" fossil bones give the rare object and piece of natural history a rich, grey-black color. Made up of 139 bone elements, the Ceratosaurus has “a remarkably complete and fully articulated skull.”

The dinosaur skeleton, on the other hand, sparked a war among six bidders over six minutes. With a pre-auction estimate of $4 million to $6 million, it is one of only four known Ceratosaurus nasicornis skeletons and the only juvenile skeleton of the species, which resembles the Tyrannosaurus rex but is smaller.

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over US$5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New

A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara desert in Niger, including this long-necked herbivore

Haddy,' a Hadrosaurus found in Haddonfield in 1858, was so popular in the 19th century that the institution began charging admission. It is viewable for the first time since 2020.

Finding a dinosaur bone in a core is like hitting a hole in one from the Moon,” James Hagadorn, the museum’s curator of geology, told the Associated Press.