9-foot dinosaur skeleton is no-sale at auction

Bidding failed to meet expectations Saturday on a uniquely complete skeleton of a Jurassic-era dryosaurus — a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur — so it was no-sale for the centerpiece at an auction of rare skeletons, fossils and other prehistoric memorabilia. Auctioneers at the I.M. Chait Gallery had hoped the 150-million-year-old, 9-foot-long dryosaurus would sell for as much as $500,000, but the bidding did not add up.

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