Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton looking for home after $6m auction fails

Auctioneers had hoped bids would top $6 million (£3.8 million) but the highest offer was only $3.7 million (£2.3 million). Samson was the star attraction in a huge dinosaur auction at the Venetian hotel and casino. About 50 other lots, including a duck-billed dinosaur, a pair of Einiosaurus skeletons and a 5-metre long fossilised fish, fetched $1.76 million (£1.1 million). Samson consists of 170 fossilised bones discovered 17 years ago in South Dakota. They represent more than half the skeleton of a 12-metre long, 7.5-ton dinosaur that lived 66 million years ago. A similar T. rex fossil nicknamed Sue sold for $8.3 million (£5.2million) in 1997...read more