article_snippet.sent: Skull is expected to raise almost $2 million at auction.
article_snippet.sent: auction is open now and the fossil is being sold by Hong Kong-based experts at Evolved.
article_snippet.sent: Skull is being sold by Hong Kong-based experts Evolve.
article_snippet.sent: The fossil - first found in Montana in 1992 - is expected to fetch $1.8 million (£1.2 million) at auction. 
article_snippet.sent: Evolved, MailOnline said that a fossil 'of this magnitude and quality is only very rarely available for private sale anywhere, and never before in Asia'. 
article_snippet.sent: In a statement released by Evolved, MailOnline said that a fossil 'of this magnitude and quality is only very rarely available for private sale anywhere, and never before in Asia.'
article_snippet.sent: However, some experts have bemoaned selling such a prized fossil to a private benefactor, rather than placing it in a museum. '
article_snippet.sent: Commercially sold fossils kept in private collections cannot be studied by paleontologists because paleontologists can only publish research on fossils stored in museums or similar institutions,' said Dr. Michael Pittman, a research assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong, reported Shanghaiist.
highlights_snippet.sent: The Dragon King dinosaur skull is up for sale in Hong Kong .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The fossil - first found in Montana in 1992 - is available for $1.8 million .