Articles tagged with: Fish Auction
Jurassic Fish Fossil Auctioned at Christie’s
Posted in Auctions on 23 April 2009
Posted in Auctions on 23 April 2009
Christie’s International sale in Paris saw some huge money being exchanged after they auctioned off an ancient fish fossil. The fish belonged to the Jurassic era and was alive about 144 million years ago. It fetched almost $240,000 and is being touted as one of the most expensive piece of bones ever sold.
The fish, called the Ophthalmosaurus was bought by a private European collector and I must say this was a pretty imposing structure to be bought. The fossils of such fish could reveal things that were never known to man. Christie’s has sold other fossils in the past too and each of these auctions brought huge sums of money.
