The only near-complete dodo bird skeleton in private hands went on sale today at Summers Place Auctions, where it fetched £280,000 as part of the Sussex-based natural history auction house's fourth Evolution sale. According to the company, the composite skeleton made from the remains of different birds is 95-percent complete and is one of only 14 such dodo skeletons in the world.
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