Rare dinosaur skeleton Barry goes on sale at Paris auction

Meet Barry the dinosaur.

The nearly complete dinosaur skeleton will be sold in Paris next month and is expected to be bought for up to €1.2m ($1.2m, £970,000).

The camptosaurus dinosaur dates back to the late Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago.

Barry was discovered in 1990s and is named after Barry James, the palaeontologist who found it.

Repair work has taken place on the skeleton before the sale.

"It is an extremely well-preserved specimen, which is quite rare," said Alexandre Giquello, from Drouot, the auction house where the sale will take place.

Barry measures 2.1m (6.9ft) tall and 5m (16.4ft ) long, that is roughly the length of two or five guitars.

Giquello said the sale of dinosaur fossils was quite rare, with only a few sales a year around the world.

However some experts are worried about these items going on private sale.

Back in April, a Tyrannosaurus rex was sold at auction for the first time in Europe.

Dinosaur expert, Prof Steve Brusatte told the BBC he was concerned that skeletons that were "scientifically very valuable" could "disappear into the vaults of private collectors".