Major fossil to be auctioned

The largest and most complete Stegosaurus skeleton ever discovered will go up for sale at Sotheby’s, a famous auction house in New York City, on July 17. The 11-foot-tall, 20-footlong dinosaur, called Apex, is 30% larger than the previous record-holding Stegosaurus. Sotheby’s predicts that Apex could sell for between $4 million and $6 million. Apex was found on private land in Colorado in 2022 and is about 161 million years old. The Stegosaurus lived millions of years before species like Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops did. That means Stegosaurus fossils are much harder to find than those of younger dinosaurs. Cassandra Hatton, a Sotheby’s expert, said Apex is “simply one of the best fossils of its kind ever unearthed.” The sale of Apex, and other fossils like it, is controversial. Critics…

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