This is your chance to buy a dinosaur skeleton.

Dinosaur fossils, reptiles, and other "exceptional creatures, " several tens of millions of years old, will go on sale in Paris on September 30 through auction house Sotheby's. The sale will comprise an ornitholeste (bird-hunter) skeleton, a small 2.2-meter-long carnivorous dinosaur that lived more than 150 million years ago, around the end of the Jurassic. Its price is estimated at $ 470, 000, Sotheby's said in a statement on Tuesday.

Among the other "exceptional creatures" offered for sale is an early Jurassic ichthyosaur stenopterygius fossil, estimated at $ 67, 000. This 1.90 meter fossil "has kept all four legs of its skeleton, " Sotheby's said.

Via InAbstract