An auction house says two museums came close, but neither met the minimum price for a rare full skeleton of a 150 million-year-old dinosaur offered at a New York sale.
But Josh Chait of I.M. Chait Gallery/Auctioneers says his family's business is still trying to broker a deal to sell the 9-foot-long dryosaurus fossil to a museum after Saturday's auction.
He declined to identify the institutions interested.
He says the fossil's minimum auction price was nearly $300,000.
The seller, Lehi, Utah-based Western Paleontological Laboratories, didn't immediately respond to telephone and e-mail messages.
A 20,000-year-old woolly mammoth fossil sold for $55,000. The skeleton of an ancient, 20-foot-long giant marine lizard called a mosasaur sold for $67,000.
Dino Skeleton Doesn't Sell at Auction
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