Yard Sale: triceratops

[hammeris1@bellsouth.net]

Snippet from THE INDEPENDENT UK:          ( 
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/ )


>"Triceratops to reach monster price at auction
>
>Monday, 10 March 2008
>
>For sale: one dinosaur, 24ft long, 65 million years old, only the second 
>fossil of this >grandeur >ever to go under the auctioneer's hammer.
>
>Would suit well-endowed museum or very spoilt, dino-mad, four-year-old with 
>large bedroom. >Reserve price: ?500,000 (£375,000).
>
>For the next six weeks, a two-thirds complete skeleton of a Triceratops 
>horridus (horrible >three-horned reptile) will dominate the Christie's auction 
>show-room in Paris. The dinosaur, >with its missing bones replaced by resin 
>replicas, will be the star attraction at what will be, >literally, a "monster 
>sale" in the French capital on 16 April.
>
>Other lots include the skull of a sabre-toothed tiger, a titanosaur's egg, the 
>skull of a >duck-billed dinosaur and the tooth of a plesiosaur, the maritime 
>dinosaur which may, 
>or may not, survive as the Loch Ness Monster. "


Maritime dinosaur?????
I don't expect these newspapers to be NATURE or anything,
but that's really pathetic.
Oh yeah, pterosaurs were dinos, too.