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PARIS: A private, anonymous US collector bought the fossilised remains of ‘Big John’, the largest triceratops dinosaur ever discovered by paleontologists, for 6.65 million euros ($7.74 million) at a Paris auction on Thursday. Big John — named after the owner of the land where the dinosaur’s bones were found — roamed modern-day South Dakota more than 66 million years ago. …

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