Record from Sotheby’s for a dinosaur: “Gus Rex,” the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex discovered in 2021 on a ranch in South Dakota and measuring 11.5 meters long and 3.8 meters high, has become the most expensive fossil in history.
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Gus, at the venerable age of 67 million years, was ‘sold’ by Sotheby’s in New York for over 50 million dollars including taxes and auction fees.
The skeleton thus surpassed the record set by Apex, a stegosaurus, which, also at Sotheby’s, changed hands in 2024 for 44.6 million dollars.
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The fossil of Gus Rex still bears the mark of a bite on the skull and other injuries mostly attributable to fights.
He is named Gus after the landowner, Gary “Gus” Licking, where the skeleton was found.
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