[Rockhounds] Dinosaur skeleton fetches record $44.6m at auction

[Tim Fisher]

NPR had an interview with a paleontologist from the great plains dinosaur
museum who hinted that he wouldn't mind having it 😊

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A large dinosaur's skeleton has fetched $44.6m (£34m) at a Sotheby's
auction in New York City - the most ever paid for a fossil.

The plant-eating stegosaurus - nicknamed Apex - is 11ft (3.4m) tall and
27ft long from nose to tail, and "ranks high among the most complete
skeletons ever found", Sotheby's said.

It was sold to an anonymous buyer, who said: "Apex was born in America and
is going to stay in America" - in what is seen as a hint that it might be
loaned to a US institution.

Apex was discovered by chance by a palaeontologist in 2022 near the
suitably named town of Dinosaur in the western US state of Colorado.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0358njg6z6o
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