A large dinosaur’s skeleton has fetched $44.6 million at a Sotheby’s auction in New York City – the most ever paid for a fossil, the BBC writes.<\/p>\n
The plant-eating stegosaurus, nicknamed Apex, is 3.4 meters tall and 8.2 meters long from nose to tail.<\/p>\n
“Apex was born in America and is going to stay in America,” the buyer said.<\/p>\n
Apex was discovered by chance by a palaeontologist in 2022 near the suitably named town of Dinosaur in the western U.S. state of Colorado.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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