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Largely complete skeleton, most complete known skeleton of Stegosaurus. Discovered in 2020 in Moffat County, Colorado, US Sotheby's July 17, 2024: New York $44,600,000 $44,600,000 Sold 11 times above pre-sale estimates to American billionaire financier Kenneth Griffin. Most expensive fossil ever sold as of 2024. [85] Vulcan Apatosaurus
The museum opened to the public on October 1, 2010 and exhibits over 300 real skeletons and over 400 real skulls, [8] focusing on the form and function of the skeletal system. On May 1, 2015, Skulls Unlimited Inc. opened a second museum, Skeletons: Museum of Osteology, in Orlando, Florida, which displays over 500 real skeletons. [9]
Apex was put to auction at Sotheby's in New York on July 17, 2024, with a pre-sale estimate of between $4 million and $6 million. [15] Seven bidders took part in the auction, which began at $3 million. [16] After 15 minutes, the specimen was sold to an anonymous buyer for $44.6 million, or 11 times its lower pre-sale estimate.
The skeleton, which will be shown to the public in mid-October, is expected to fetch up to €1.2 million ($1.28 million) when it goes on sale on October 20. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory ...
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The skeleton was nearly complete, preserving 175 of the 200 bones a complete skeleton would have. The specimen was only the second of its kind in the entire world, and the first in North America. [ citation needed ] The discovery was considered one of the most significant finds in North American paleontology.
Billed as America's only skeleton museum, the Museum of Osteology houses about 8,000 specimens representing 1,500 animal species from around the globe. More than 450 real skeletons and skulls are ...
“In 1924, a group of human skeletons were found between 5.76 and 7 m deep in a area ca 1 m 2 during trenching operations being carried out by the Haverty Construction Company in the Baldwin Hills area of western Los Angeles, California (Stock, 1924). The horizontal proximity of the skeletons strongly suggest that all of the skeletons were ...