[Lee Stewart]

On October 6, Christie’s will be auctioning off Stan—one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons ever found. The skeleton could fetch a record price at the auction, with estimates as high as $8 million.

Standing 13 feet tall (3.9 meters) and nearly 40 feet long (12 meters), Stan would make for a spectacular addition to any well-to-do museum. A more disgusting possibility would see the skeleton land in some rich rando’s private collection, never to be seen again in public. But such are the possibilities, as Christie’s prepares to auction the impressive specimen during its 20th Century Evening Sale event in New York City.

“It is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to acquire a T. rex as complete as this,” James Hyslop, head of Christie’s Science & Natural History department, told AFP.