‘Jodi,’ Sotheby’s Newly-Minted Nanotyrannus, Hits the Auction Block With $9 M. Estimate

Sotheby’s may have been hoping that the dinosaur skeleton known as “Jodi” was, in fact, a youthful T. rex, given the name recognition and resulting price tags that have accompanied this species of sought-after dinosaur.Instead, the auction house’s latest high-profile specimen is a Nanotyrannus, a mid-size tyrannosaurid genus that, according to Artnet, had previously been for sale for $20 million at Frieze Masters in 2023. At the time, the skeleton was called “Chompe