Mammoth skeleton sold at Paris auction
Published April 17th, 2007
The skeleton of a Siberian mammoth around 15,000 years old went under the hammer for $352,000 at a rare paleontology sale by Christie’s auction house in Paris, the French capital.
The name of the buyer who bought the 3.8 metres high and 4.8 metres in length skeleton, was not made public.
The “mammuthus primigenius” dating back to the Quaternary period, or later Pleistocene, was put up for sale by an unnamed “private European collector”.
Also sold on Monday was the 10,000 year old skeleton of a woolly rhinoceros that went for $135,000, well above its estimated price.
