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Fossilized Skeletons of Giant Flying and Aquatic Reptiles to Be Auctioned

  • Sotheby's will auction a 20-foot wingspan pteranodon nicknamed "Horus" and an 11-foot plesiosaur nicknamed "Nessie."
  • The Kansas pteranodon is estimated to sell for $4-6 million while the English plesiosaur could sell for $600,000-800,000.
  • The pteranodon was an aerial predator discovered in 2002 that could fly over water and fish with its beak.
  • The plesiosaur was an aquatic reptile with a snake-like neck and flippers that lived about 190 million years ago.
  • The seller of the rare fossils, which are tens of millions of years old, has not been identified.
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