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The most complete and best preserved skeleton of a dinosaur ‘Stegosaurus’, which lived 150 million years ago, will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York on July 17, with a starting price between four and six million dollars.
As Sotheby’s reported this Wednesday, it is the “best specimen” of this recognizable dinosaur that goes up for auction. In addition, the institution has collaborated with the owner since its discovery two years ago in Colorado (USA), the first partnership of its kind.
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He ‘stegosaurus’ is a herbivorous dinosaur from the late Jurassic period with an arched back and a spine crowned by spines that run from the head to the tail.
The specimen up for auction, nicknamed ‘Apex’, measures about 3 meters high and 6 meters long and has no signs of combat or damage caused by predatorsbut evidence of arthritis, indicating that lbequeathed at an advanced age, indicates a statement.
Sotheby’s has a long history of selling dinosaur fossils since in 1997 it was the first house to offer a complete skeleton, the famous Tyrannosaurus Rex ‘Sue’, which sold for $8.36 million and can be seen at the Field Museum from Chicago.
Recently, this institution sold the complete skeleton of a Gorgosaurus, a relative of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, for more than 6 million dollars, and also for a similar price it sold a skull of the king predator, while at Christie’s, a rival house, collections have been achieved greater.
At Christie’s, a ‘Deinonychus’ dinosaur skeleton sold this year for 12.4 million, although below the record for a fossil, which it has held since 2020, when a complete T-Rex, nicknamed ‘Stan’, sold for 31, 8 million dollars.
In recent decades, dinosaur fossils have been appearing at auctions with increasingly higher prices, much to the concern of consumers. paleontologists, who claim that their place is in research centers and not in private collections.