--- 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Rare Dinosaur Skeleton Could Be Yours for Under $1 Million ## Video: Waking the Dead: Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life [Watch (HLS stream): Waking the Dead: Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7mURxfr4.m3u8) (4:03)  _Published 2014-03-12. Conservationists and scientists have a saying, "extinction is forever." But soon biologists will clone long-gone animals in the hope to redefine that axiom to "DE-extinction is forever."_ by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Sep 10, 2015 5:02 PM UTC  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. 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. 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