--- title: This Rare Dinosaur Skeleton Could Be Yours for Under $1 Million description: It last roamed the Earth up to 155 million years ago canonical: https://time.com/4029623/dinosaur-skeleton-auction/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-10T17:02:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:07.806Z og:title: This Rare Dinosaur Skeleton Could Be Yours for Under $1 Million og:description: And it's being marketed as 'cute' og:url: https://time.com/4029623/dinosaur-skeleton-auction/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt24e2916a56cb330a/6988630d8e060158df46247d/allosaurus-auction.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: Juvenile Allosaurus dinosaur sale og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Rare Dinosaur Skeleton Could Be Yours for Under $1 Million twitter:description: And it's being marketed as 'cute' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt24e2916a56cb330a/6988630d8e060158df46247d/allosaurus-auction.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Rare Dinosaur Skeleton Could Be Yours for Under $1 Million > Sponsored content. 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A rare skeleton of a juvenile Allosaurus dinosaur at Summers Place Auctions in West Sussex, England is set to fetch up to £500,000 at an auction in November. Gareth Fuller—AP by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Sep 10, 2015 5:02 PM UTC A skeleton of a rare dinosaur that was found in Wyoming is going up for auction in the U.K. in November and is expected to fetch bids of up to $750,000 (500,000 pounds). The skeleton belonged to a young Allosaurus, a distant relative of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, and is the first predatory dinosaur skeleton to be sold in Britain. Its rarity, and the fact that it last roamed the Earth up to 155 million years ago, isn’t its only selling point, though. “Given the size of this Allosaurus it also adds the cute factor and may not just attract interest from museums but could also be the wow factor in a luxurious living room,” said Ruper van der Werff, director of Summers Place Auctions, where it will go up for sale. So if you have a million or so dollars going spare you might want to get in touch. ## Transcript [ SOUND ] [ MUSIC ] My name is Stuart Brand and I was trained as an ecologist. Conservation is about to take a turn because the technology was gonna allow us to use the DNA that's in the museum specimens and fossils to bring back extinct species [ MUSIC ] The passenger pigeon was around for 6 million years. And people remembered how amazing it was that these animals darkened the sky for hours at a time. There's these stories about these giant flocks blocking out the sun. And their wings sounding louder than thunder. We developed the techniques to hunt and net these birds and basically killed them all. And then it was really gone. When I was growing up, my mother said when the last one died in 1914 it broke America's heart. It was one of the prideful things that America had to show the world, and it was gone. This book. This is essentially the bible of passenger pigeon. I am currently the lead researcher for the deextinction project to bring the extinct passenger pigeon back to life. When I say, oh, we'll bring back a passenger pigeon, everyone goes, oh, my god, that's like Jurassic Park. And no, no, it's not. Not at all. Our scientists have done things which nobody's ever done before. Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. I don't think a pigeon is going to, you know, pluck lawyers off of toilets. No. [ SOUND ]. Aah! [ BLANK_AUDIO ] So how we're actually going to go about deextinction. Every organism has a unique code in their genes. This one would be good I think. So these are actual DNA codes. From a chunk of a passenger pigeon foot. Now, if you can get DNA, then we can actually make it into a living cell. We're going to sequence its whole genome. We're gonna build from scratch the code that is a passenger pigeon, one gene at a time. Compare it to its closest relative. [ MUSIC ] Then we're gonna introduce DNA into the living cell of a band- tailed pigeon. And when you introduce an extinct animal's egg cell into a new mother, then you've changed the game. [ MUSIC ] Which has been done. The extinct Iranian Ibex was successfully cloned. That was the first deextinction. In this particular case, the animal only lived about ten minutes, but it was a proof of concept, and with further efforts, we hope, followed by everything from the passenger pigeon to the Tasmanian tiger. It's one of the most famous human- caused extinctions in the world. Benjamin, the last Tasmanian tiger, died in 1936. It was our direct activity that caused that extinction. For me, biotech is the future of conservation because our meddling is not unnatural. It is what species do. One of the things that gotten used to is the horrifying realization that extinction is forever. 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