The auction house Christie’s expects the T. rex will be sold for six to eight million US dollars.
A good four meters high, he is twelve meters long, Tyrannosaurus rex ‘Stan’. The skeleton of the colossus, which probably weighed seven to eight tons during its lifetime, is one of the largest and most complete T. rexskeletons ever found. And it is for sale. Auction house Christie’s expects to catch between six and eight million dollars for it during early October.
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Stan
Stan is named after amateur paleontologist Stan Sacrison who found the first bones in 1987. The skeleton consists of 188 original bones and a flawless skull with 58 (once) razor-sharp, 28 centimeter teeth.
Stan’s skeleton is one of the largest and most complete T.
rexskeletons we’ve found so far. More intact still includes Trix, the female T. rex in the Naturalis Natural History Museum in Leiden.
Under the hammer
Last week, Stan, who previously spent a long time at the Black Hills Institute in South Dakota, was unveiled to the public at Christie’s Rockefeller Center in New York. On October 6, 2020, the colossus will go under the proverbial hammer. Christie’s expects to get between 6 and 8 million for it, but rumors have it that it could be more than that. The most that has been paid for a dinosaur fossil so far is $ 8.3 million, before T. rex Sue in 1997.
Who has the money and space to bring Stan into their home? The best thing would, of course, be if an institute or museum bought the colossus or received a donation so that the world can enjoy Stan for longer.
Sources: Christie’s
Image: Christie’s
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