Paleontologists have long been furious about private sales of dinosaurs skeletons; but the wound was re-opened last month when a complete, 10-foot-tall Gorgosaurus skeleton sold to an anonymous bidder at auction. The $6.1million sale at Sotheby's auction house in New York, and others like it, means prehistoric remains are being put out of reach of the scientific community who study them, say scientists who fear that once in private hands, the prehistoric specimens are 'little more than toys for the rich'.Steve Brusatte, an American paleontologist affiliated with the University of in Scotland, told DailyMail.com: 'Dinosaurs are becoming a commodity traded on the global market, a luxury item affordable only to the wealthiest people, little different than fine art or classic cars or old bottles of whisky.
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