World’s biggest triceratops skeleton sells for £5.5m in Paris

Auctioneer Alexandre Giquello poses in front of Big John (Lewis Joly/AP)

The world’s biggest triceratops skeleton, known as “Big John”, has been sold for 6.6 million euros (£5.5 million) at a Paris auction house.

The enormous skeleton, estimated to be more than 66 million years old, was found in 2014 in South Dakota.