The skeleton of a large dinosaur sold for $44.6 million at an auction in New York, the most ever paid for a fossil. This was reported by the BBC press service.
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It is noted that the herbivorous stegosaurus, nicknamed Apex, was 3.4 m tall and 8.3 m long from nose to tail, and occupies one of the first places among the most complete skeletons ever found.
It was sold to an anonymous buyer who said that Apex was born in America and would stay in America.
Apex was accidentally found by a paleontologist in 2022 near the town of the same name in the western US state of Colorado.
According to the auction house, the fossil exceeded its pre-sale estimate by more than 11 times.
It is believed that Apex roamed the planet about 150 million years ago during the Late Jurassic period.