{"id":237390,"date":"2023-09-19T10:40:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T02:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=237390"},"modified":"2023-09-19T10:40:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T02:40:27","slug":"rare-dinosaur-barry-up-for-sale-at-paris-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=237390","title":{"rendered":"Rare dinosaur &#8216;Barry&#8217; up for sale at Paris auction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/IEOxP2E1LPyJ_rkZrBRbpA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD02OTk-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_bbc_articles_618\/d8c69315b6070aad7fd7fe5b8f9e9ce8\" alt=\"A auction house employee reconstructs the skeleton of the adult dinosaur Barry\"\/><figcaption>Barry is thought to have one of the most complete skulls ever documented in a dinosaur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PARIS, Sept 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; An almost complete dinosaur skeleton will be sold at auction in Paris next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 150 million-year-old camptosaurus was discovered in the 1990s in the US state of Wyoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was named Barry after Barry James, the palaeontologist who found it. Experts say the skeleton is &#8220;extremely well preserved&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is expected to fetch up to \u20ac1.2m in an auction at Hotel Drouot on Oct 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barry dates back to the late Jurassic period and measures 2.1m tall and 5m long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alexandre Giquello, from the auction house Hotel Drouot, said it was unusual to see a dinosaur skeleton so intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The skull is complete at 90% and the rest of the dinosaur is complete at 80%,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sales of dinosaur fossils are rare, with only a small number taking place each year globally &#8211; although some experts have raised concerns about specimens finding their way into private hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In April, a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-65314219?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrannosaurus rex was sold at auction<\/a>\u00a0for the first time in Europe. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, Sept 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; An almost complete dinosaur skeleton will be sold at auction in Paris next month. The 150 million-year-old camptosaurus was discovered in the 1990s in the US state of Wyoming. It was named Barry after Barry James, the palaeontologist who found it. Experts say the skeleton is &#8220;extremely well preserved&#8221;. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237392,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237390\/revisions\/237392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/237391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}