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Apex's sale beat that of Stan, a Tyrannosaurus rex that previously held the title of most expensive dinosaur after fetching $31.8 million at auction in 2020. Record-breaking sale: Apex goes for ...
The private sale of fossils has attracted criticism from paleontologists, as it presents an obstacle to fossils being publicly accessible to research. [2] Most countries where relatively complete dinosaur specimens are commonly found have laws against the export of fossils. The United States allows the sale of specimens collected on private ...
Dated to the Late Jurassic epoch, it is the largest known Stegosaurus fossil, preserving skin impressions and throat ossicles alongside a mostly complete skeleton. On July 17, 2024, the specimen was sold at Sotheby's for $44.6 million to hedge fund billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin , making it the highest-priced fossil ever sold at auction.
Big John is part of a larger run up in auction prices for dinosaur remains, [26] [27] and was, until the sale of Apex in 2024, the most expensive non-Tyrannosaurus fossil ever sold at auction. [ 4 ] [ 28 ] However, its price was substantially lower than the $ 27.5 million ($31.8 million with fees and costs) paid in 2020 for the Tyrannosaurus ...
Three dinosaur fossils from the Jurassic period will go under the hammer at a London auction on Thursday, with price estimates of millions of dollars. Christie's is offering the skeletons of an ...
"The sale of Sue was a turning point, I think, [for] the commercial sale of fossils," Spencer Lucas, a curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in ...
In the United States, it is legal to sell fossils collected on private land. [7] In Mongolia and China the export of fossils is illegal. [9] [11] Brazil considers all fossils as federal assets and prohibits their trade since 1942, banned the permanent exports of holotypes and other fossils of national interest in 1990, and requires permits by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation ...
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