Stegosaurus Skeleton Nabs $44.6 Million At Historic Auction In New York City
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The Jurassic fossil was discovered on private Colorado land in 2022 and had an estimated value of between $4 million and $6 million.
A historic auction has once again proven that dinosaurs are here to stay — even if extinct.
Sotheby’s offered an enormous stegosaurus skeleton to the highest bidder on Wednesday and, despite early projections of it fetching between $4 million and $6 million, it sold to an unnamed buyer for $44.6 million — and became the most valuable fossil ever auctioned off.
The auction house revealed on its website that the bones were found in 2022 on private land in Moffat County, Colorado, near the aptly named town of Dinosaur. The skeleton, nicknamed “Apex,” is 11 feet tall and spans nearly 27 feet from fossilized nose to ancient tail.
The herbivorous stegosaurus thrived during the late Jurassic era 145 million years ago.
Sotheby’s explained that the skeleton was excavated with 254 fossil bone elements still intact and preserved from distortion by the Colorado sandstone. The remainder of its approximately 319 bones, meanwhile, were 3D-printed to complete the skeleton.
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