Investing in dinosaur bones is not for everyone, but there is one definite advantage to this investment: such relics are not easy to steal. For example, a three-horned triceratops skull, which is 2.5 meters long, clearly does not fit into a backpack. Transporting such a bulky exhibit also causes considerable difficulties. :format(webp)/nginx/o/2024/08/18/16297035t1h9d11.jpg)
Stegosaurus Apex, a 150-million-year-old fossil that was estimated to sell for between four and six million dollars, actually sold at Sotheby's for $44.6 million. Photo: Nancy Kaszerman
Investing in dinosaur bones is not for everyone, but there is one definite advantage to this investment: such relics are not easy to steal. For example, a three-horned triceratops skull, which is 2.5 meters long, clearly does not fit into a backpack. Transporting such a bulky exhibit also causes considerable difficulties.
Translation: Karoliina Vertyaeva
The Natural History Museum in Abu Dhabi apparently took this factor into account when it bid $31.8 million (€29.8 million) for a 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus skeleton named Stan at a Christie's auction in 2020. It was the highest price ever paid for a fossil at auction, well above the $6-8 million originally expected.
