Loch Ness monster-like dinosaur skeletons may fetch $800K at New York auction
dinosaur skeletons — one a fierce flying reptile of the kind seen in the «Jurassic Park» movies and the other evocative of the Loch Ness monster — will be auctioned off this month in New York, Sotheby's said Tuesday. The latter, called Nessie after the legendary elusive beast plying the depths of a Scottish lake, is estimated to draw between $600,000 and $800,000, Sotheby's said. A kind of dinosaur called a plesiosaur, it was last auctioned in Paris in 2010 and at the time had come from a private museum in Germany. The remains, which are nearly 11 feet (3.4 meters) long, were found in a quarry in England in 1990. The skeleton is about 75 per cent complete and in exceptional condition, said Cassandra Hotton, Sotheby's head of Science and Popular Culture. With its small head, long neck and flippers, the plesiosaur lived in the Lower Jurassic period about 190 million years ago. «The history of the Plesiosaur is also intertwined with the elusive Loch Ness monster of Scottish folklore, as many have drawn morphological comparisons between the Plesiosaur and the infamous 'Nessie,' whose sightings stretch back to the sixth century,» Sotheby's said in a news release.
A photographer takes a photo of «Nessie», a mounted skeleton of a lower jurassic Plesiosaur Cryptoclidus (approximately 190 million years old) on July 10, 2023 during Sotheby’s Natural History auction preview in New York. The skeletons will be offered in Sotheby’s Natural History auction on 26 July, part of the annual Geek Week series of sales celebrating the history of science & technology, space exploration, and the natural world, taking place from 18-27 July. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)This one will be auctioned on July 26 at a Sotheby's event focused on
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