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A composite Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton sold for 4.8 million Swiss francs ($5.3 million) at a Zurich auction Tuesday, below the anticipated selling price of 5 to 8 million francs.The skeleton was assembled from nearly 300 bones from three different specimens.Auction house marketing director Karl Green called the underwhelming winning bid "a fair price for the
Promoters said the composite T. rex, dubbed "Trinity," was built from nearly 300 bone specimens retrieved from three sites in the Hell Creek and Lance Creek formations of Montana and Wyoming.