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Most expensive fossil sold until the sale of Stan in 2020. [10] Barnum Tyrannosaurus rex: 20% of a skeleton Collected by Japeth Boyce in Wyoming, United States in 1995 Bonhams: May 16, 2004: Los Angeles $93,250 [c] $150,422 Reported to potentially be the same individual as the first T. rex specimen ever discovered, now at the Natural History ...
[19] [20] [21] Sue remains one of the most expensive dinosaur fossils ever sold, only surpassed in 2020 with the sale of Stan the T. rex. for $31.8 million, and subsequently in 2024 by Apex the Stegosaurus, which sold for $44.6 million.
It is the fifth most complete T. rex fossil discovered to date, at more than 70% bulk. [2] [3] In October 2020, the fossil was sold for $31.8 million at auction, making it at the time the most expensive dinosaur specimen and fossil ever sold. This record stood until July 2024, when the Stegosaurus fossil Apex sold at auction for $44.6 million. [4]
Fossils from a trio of dinosaurs have sold for more than £12m at auction. The prehistoric skeletons, which date back approximately 150 million years, fetched £12.4m ($15.7m) at Christie's in ...
A 67-million-year old Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton fetched £4.3m (4.8 million Swiss francs) when it was auctioned off in Europe for the first time on Tuesday, 18 April. The 'TRX-293 TRINITY ...
A roughly 76-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex skull is set to be auctioned off in New York City. The 200-pound fossil could fetch up to $20 million.
Griffin's successful $44.6 million bid for Apex over the summer set a record for dinosaur remains, beating out the $31.8 million paid for “Stan,” the remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex sold in 2020. Like Apex, the Stan fossils were purchased by a private individual with plans to make it available to the public.
Following the sale of "Sue," another Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton was, the specimen was put up for auction on eBay in 2000 under the name of "Z-rex", with an asking price of over US$8 million. It failed to sell online but was purchased for an undisclosed price in 2001 by British millionaire Graham Ferguson Lacey, who renamed the skeleton "Samson ...