DALLAS (AP) — The skeletal rendition of an 85 million year old swordfish is set to be sold later this month by a Dallas-based auction house.

The Cretaceous era fossil, known as Protosphyraena nitida, measures about eight feet from sword to tail fin and contains 59 teeth.

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