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Hedge-fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin paid $44.6 million for a nearly complete Stegosaurus skeleton at Sotheby’s on Wednesday, the most ever paid for a fossil at auction. Its sale surpassed the $32 million paid four years ago by Abu Dhabi for a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton widely known as “Stan”.
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Collectors tend to pay a premium for instantly recognizable predators with “Jurassic Park” ties such as the Tyrannosaurus rex and the Velociraptor, but this 27-foot-long herbivore stood out as soon as commercial paleontologist Jason Cooper unearthed it on his Dinosaur, Colo., property two years ago because it was so intact.
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