An auction in New York City featured rare geological artifacts, including the largest piece of Mars sold for $5.3 million and a juvenile dinosaur skeleton that fetched over $30 million, marking it as the third-highest amount paid for a dinosaur at auction.

The dinosaur skeleton, on the other hand, sparked a war among six bidders over six minutes. With a pre-auction estimate of $4 million to $6 million, it is one of only four known Ceratosaurus nasicornis skeletons and the only juvenile skeleton of the species, which resembles the Tyrannosaurus rex but is smaller.

A rare Mars rock and a young dinosaur skeleton were sold at a New York auction. The Mars rock, found in the Sahara, fetched over $5 million. The dinosaur skeleton, a Ceratosaurus, sold for over $30 million.

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton went for more than $30 million.

A massive Martian meteorite, the largest ever found on Earth, fetched a record $5.3 million at a New York auction. However, it was a rare Ceratosaurus skeleton that stole the show, igniting a bidding war and ultimately selling for an astounding $30.

The 54-pound rock was found in the Sahara Desert in Niger in November 2023, after having been blown off the surface of Mars by a massive asteroid strike.

An exceptionally rare Martian meteorite has been sold for £3.2 million at a Sotheby’s auction in New York after being discovered in the Sahara Desert. Weighing 24.5kg (54lb), the meteorite—named NWA 16788—is the largest known fragment from Mars ever found on Earth.