Museum Of Science Gets To Keep Cliff The Triceratops

BOSTON (CBS) – The Museum of Science is going to keep one of its most popular residents.

Cliff the triceratops was at the museum on a seven-year loan that was about to end.

Cliff's owner, who wanted to remain anonymous, said the skeleton could stay for good if the museum raised $850,000.

The museum hit their goal overnight when two major donors stepped up.

"A lot of us who have been here a long time feel like it's a big family," Paul Fontaine, the museum's VP of Education said in February. "Cliff is a true member of the family."

The fossil was dug up in North Dakota in 2004 and sold at auction for almost a million dollars to a Boston native in 2008.