LONDON: Calling all fossil hunters with £600,000 to spare: The full skeleton of a huge diplodocus dinosaur is to go on sale in Britain next month.

Nicknamed Misty, the 17-metre-long, six-meter-tall fossil dating back some 150 million years is one of only a handful of other known examples in the world. Found in the US state of Wyoming by the young sons of a famed dinosaur hunter, it will go on sale at the Summers Place auction house in Billingshurst, southern England, on November 27. The giant female skeleton carries an estimate of £400,000 to £600,000 but is open to all bidders.

“There is a high chance that a museum will buy it, but in theory individuals could buy it as well,” Silke Lohmann, spokeswoman for the auction house, told AFP.